north of White Operation Wash: Barstovian, New Mexico
collected by Ted Galusha
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Kinosternoidea
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Kinosternon skullridgescens n. sp.
Bourque 2012
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| AMNH FAM9090 (holotype), a nearly complete skeleton | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New Mexico | County: | Santa Fe |
| Coordinates: | 35.1° North, 106.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.7° North, 103.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Barstovian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 16.30000 - 12.50000 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 16.0 to 14.9 Ma (paleomagnetic) |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Tesuque | Member: | Skull Ridge | ||
| Stratigraphy comments: Magnetostratigraphy and ash dating have shown the Skull Ridge Member to span between 16.0 and 14.9 Ma (Barghoorn, 1981; Tedford and Barghoorn, 1993; Berggren et al., 1995) and sanidine 40Ar/39Ar dates of 15.42 ± 0.06 Ma (McIntosh and Quade, 1995) and 15.3 ± 0.05 Ma were obtained from the White Ash Number 4 near the top of the Skull Ridge Member (Tedford et al., 2004) |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | AMNH |
| Collectors: | Ted Galusha |
Metadata
| Database number: | 190948 | ||
| Authorizer: | E. Vlachos | Enterer: | E. Vlachos |
| Created: | 2017-12-30 08:33:27 | Last modified: | 2017-12-30 08:33:27 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-12-30 08:33:27 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 64339. | J. R. Bourque. 2012. A fossil mud turtle (Testudines, Kinosternidae) from the early middle Miocene (early Barstovian) of New Mexico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32:836-853 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |