Where: Dickens County, Texas (33.5° N, 100.8° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 98.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Miocene to Miocene (23.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• age unclear: assumed by Cope (1892) to be "Pliocene," but the local geology is unknown and the "Blanco Beds" are not present, so the unit could be anything from the Ogallala to Pleistocene alluvium
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W. F. Cummins in 1891
• ANSP collection
Primary reference: E. D. Cope. 1892. A contribution to the vertebrate paleontology of Texas. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 30(137):123-131 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 99818: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 23.11.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Testudo turgida n. sp." = Hesperotestudo turgida
"Testudo turgida n. sp." = Hesperotestudo turgida Cope 1892 turtle |