Chrysemys limnodytes type locality (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Beaver County, Oklahoma (36.8° N, 100.3° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 97.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Laverne Formation, Clarendonian (13.6 - 10.3 Ma)

• "Marl beds of the Laverne formation, early Pliocene age" (= Clarendonian) and specifically "from the marl immediately below the fossil leaf zone"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; marl

• "marl beds"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1946

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• University of Kansas collection

•specimen had suffered damage "from exposure before discovery"

Primary reference: E. C. Galbreath. 1948. A new extinct emydid turtle from the Lower Pliocene of Oklahoma. University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History 1(16):269-275 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99820: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 23.11.2010

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Emydidae
Chrysemys limnodytes n. sp. Galbreath 1948 turtle