Also known as (GPS-FN: Busker-Bessone1)

Where: Chubut, Argentina (43.4° S, 65.7° W: paleocoordinates 44.0° S, 59.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Sarmiento Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; tuff and tuffaceous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Busker-Bessone; reposited in the MEF

Primary reference: J. Sterli, E. Vlachos, P. Puerta, C. Oriozabala, and M. Krause. 2021. Contribution to the diversity of the fossil record of turtles (Testudinidata) from Chubut province (Argentina) and its significance in understanding the evolution of turtles in southern South America. Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina 21(1):118-160 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 208502: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 01.04.2020

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