DMNH locality 2398: Puercan, Colorado
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Testudines
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Cryptodira indet.
Cope 1868
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Plastomeninae indet.
(Hay 1902)
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= Plastomenus joycei
Lyson et al. 2021
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Lyson et al. 2021 | |||||||||
DMNH EPV.45111 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Colorado | County: | Arapahoe |
Coordinates: | 39.5° North, 104.7° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 45.7° North, 82.5° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
Stage: | Danian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 |
Key time interval: | Puercan | ||
Age range of interval: | 66.00000 - 63.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Denver | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Denver Formation (D1 sequence) |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | coarse sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: coarse-grained sandstone channel | |
Environment: | "channel" |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (float) |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | DMNH |
Metadata
Database number: | 176853 | ||
Authorizer: | P. Holroyd, P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Holroyd, P. Mannion |
Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2016-03-05 22:45:52 | Last modified: | 2021-06-02 06:14:30 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-03-05 22:45:52 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
26071. | J. H. Hutchison and P. A. Holroyd. 2003. Late Cretaceous and early Paleocene turtles of the Denver Basin, Colorado. Rocky Mountain Geology 38(1):121-142 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] |
Secondary references:
77033 | T. R. Lyson, H. Petermann, and I. M. Miller. 2021. A new plastomenid trionychid turtle, Plastomenus joycei, sp. nov., from the earliest Paleocene (Danian) Denver Formation of south-central Colorado, U.S.A. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e1913600:1-11 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/P. Mannion] |