Also known as L.A.C.M. locality 32-35
Where: Dona Ana County, New Mexico (32.2° N, 106.6° W: paleocoordinates 32.2° N, 106.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the LACM
Primary reference: B. H. Brattstrom. 1961. Some new fossil tortoises from western North America with remarks on the zoogeography and paleoecology of tortoises. Journal of Paleontology 35(3):543-560 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 99600: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 16.11.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Gopherus cf. agassizi" = Gopherus agassizii
"Gopherus cf. agassizi" = Gopherus agassizii Cooper 1863 Mojave desert tortoise "similar to" this species
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