Also known as approximately 38 miles west-southwest from the type locality of Naomichelys speciosa
Where: Carbon County, Montana (45.5° N, 108.7° W: paleocoordinates 45.2° N, 58.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Little Sheep Mudstone Member (Cloverly Formation), Aptian to Aptian (125.0 - 109.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; gray mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: The specimen is housed at the Museum of the Rockies (MOR), Bozeman, Montana
Primary reference: D. R. Lawver and B. A. Garner. 2023. Skeletal variation of the stem turtle Naomichelys speciosa (Testudinata: Helochelydridae): insights from a new specimen from the Lower Cretaceous Cloverly Formation of Montana. Cretaceous Research 149:1-13 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 230157: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 15.05.2023
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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