UCMP V94026 (Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument): Late/Upper Campanian, Utah
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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Compsemys victa
(Leidy 1856)
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UCMP 194334, about 20 shell fragments including a complete peripheral | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Utah | County: | Garfield |
Coordinates: | 37.6° North, 111.8° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 45.6° North, 82.9° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
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 | ||
Age estimate: | 76.1 to 74 Ma (unknown) |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Kaiparowits |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection,survey of museum collection,observed (not collected) |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | UCMP |
Metadata
Also known as: | Canaan Peak WNW 1 | ||
Database number: | 187679 | ||
Authorizer: | E. Vlachos | Enterer: | E. Vlachos |
Created: | 2017-08-07 13:47:03 | Last modified: | 2017-08-07 13:47:03 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-08-07 13:47:03 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
63006. | J. H. Hutchison, M. J. Knell, and D. Brinkman. 2013. Turtles from the Kaiparowits Formation, Utah. In A. L. Titus & M. A. Loewen (ed.), At the Top of the Grand Staircase: The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah 295-318 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/M. Carrano] |