Where: Randall County, Texas (34.9° N, 101.6° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 101.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• "Upper Pliocene... overlain and underlain by fossil-bearing strata" that yield the Cita Canyon mammal fauna, but "thus far only turtles have been discovered" in the intermediate "stratum"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; poorly lithified, coarse-grained, brown sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. S. Johnston

• Panhandle Plains Historical Museum collection

Primary reference: C. S. Johnston. 1937. Osteology of Bysmachelys canyonensis a new turtle from the Pliocene of Texas. Journal of Paleontology 45(4):439-447 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99817: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 23.11.2010

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