NAP locality: Late/Upper Campanian, Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Kinosternoidea
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Yelmochelys rosarioae
Brinkman et al. 2016
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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] |