NAP locality: Late/Upper Campanian, Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Kinosternoidea
Yelmochelys rosarioae Brinkman et al. 2016
see common names

Geography
Country:Mexico State/province:Coahuila
Coordinates: 25.5° North, 101.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.6° North, 76.0° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Late/Upper Campanian
Age range of interval:83.50000 - 70.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Difunta Formation:Cerro del Pueblo
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:179649
Authorizer:P. Holroyd Enterer:P. Holroyd
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-06-23 12:56:51 Last modified:2016-06-23 12:56:51
Access level:the public Released:2016-06-23 12:56:51
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

59516. D. Brinkman, M. C. Aguillon-Martinez, J. H. Hutchison and C. M. Brown. 2016. Yelmochelys rosarioae gen. et sp. nov., a stem kinosternid (Testudines; Kinosternidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Coahuila, Mexico. PaleoBios 33:1-20 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Mannion]