Staebler's Turtle 2, UCMP V79052 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as CSUF-118A

Where: Fresno County, California (36.5° N, 120.7° W: paleocoordinates 42.6° N, 96.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tierra Loma Shale Member (Moreno Formation), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. N. Staebler & J. H. Hutchison in 1979; reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: K. Workman Ford. 2006. Stratigraphic positions of marine reptile and dinosaur specimens in the Moreno Formation, in the Tumey Hills and Panoche Hills, Fresno County, California. In S. G. Lucas and R. M. Sullivan (eds.), Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35:407-410 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76729: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.11.2007

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Taxonomic list

Gnathostomata
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Osteichthyes indet. bony fish
UCMP 123438-439
Reptilia
 Testudines - Nanhsiungchelyidae
Basilemys sp. Hay 1902 turtle
UCMP 126717