DMNH 2550: Puercan, Colorado
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionychidae indet.
(Gray 1825)
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Kinosternoidea
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Hoplochelys crassa
(Cope 1888)
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Reptilia
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Compsemys victa
(Leidy 1856)
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Champsosaurus sp.
Cope 1876
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Lyson et al. 2019 | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Colorado | County: | El Paso |
Coordinates: | 38.9° North, 104.6° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 45.0° North, 82.6° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
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 | ||
Age estimate: | 65.460 Ma (paleomagnetic) |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Denver |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | DMNH |
Metadata
Database number: | 176747 | ||
Authorizer: | P. Holroyd, E. Vlachos | Enterer: | P. Holroyd, E. Vlachos |
Modifier: | E. Vlachos | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2016-02-28 23:07:49 | Last modified: | 2019-10-25 13:28:55 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-02-28 23:07:49 |
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:
70613 | T. R. Lyson, I. M. Miller, A. D. Bercovici, K. Weissenburger, A. J. Fuentes, W. C. Clyde, J. W. Hagadorn, M. J. Butrim, K. R. Johnson, R. F. Fleming, R. S. Barclay, S. A. Maccracken, B. Lloyd, G. P. Wilson, D. W. Krause and S. G. B. Chester. 2019. Exceptional continental record of biotic recovery after the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction. Science eaay2268:1-12 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/M. Uhen] |