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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Chrysemys limnodytes n. sp.
Chrysemys limnodytes n. sp. Galbreath 1948 turtle |