MOR 941 locality (Cretaceous to of the United States)

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)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata - Helochelydridae
Naomichelys speciosa Hay 1908 turtle
MOR 941, partial skeleton