near Punta Peligro, MPEF-PV 10906 locality: Danian, Argentina
collected 2013-2014

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Peligrochelys walshae Sterli and de la Fuente 2013
MPEF–PV 10906, A left bridge peripheral and an indet. Peripheral.
see common names

Geography
Country:Argentina State/province:Chubut
Coordinates: 45.4° South, 67.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.9° South, 56.5° West
Basis of coordinate:unpublished field data
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Paleocene
Stage:Danian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 1
Key time interval:Danian
Age range of interval:66.00000 - 61.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Salamanca
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Banco Negro Inferior, BN1
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: claystone
Secondary lithology: conglomerate
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:mire/swamp
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Collection size:1 individuals
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:MEF
Collection dates:2013-2014
Collection method comments: Material stored in the collections of Museo Paleontologico Egidio Feruglio, Trelew, Chubut
Metadata
Database number:200068
Authorizer:E. Vlachos Enterer:E. Vlachos
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2019-03-06 07:44:39 Last modified:2019-03-06 07:44:39
Access level:the public Released:2019-03-06 07:44:39
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

68072. J. Sterli and M. S. de la Fuente. 2019. Cranial and post-cranial remains and phylogenetic relationships of the Gondwanan meiolaniform turtle Peligrochelys walshae from the Paleocene of Chubut, Argentina. Journal of Paleontology 93(4):798-821 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/P. Mannion]