UCMP V94029 (Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument): Late/Upper Campanian, Utah

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Compsemys victa (Leidy 1856)
UCMP 194336, four fragments including a hyoplastron that preserves the notch region and a complete first neural
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Utah County:Kane
Coordinates: 37.5° North, 111.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.4° North, 82.5° 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:Wahweap Creek Head W2
Database number:187681
Authorizer:E. Vlachos Enterer:E. Vlachos
Created:2017-08-07 13:51:51 Last modified:2017-08-07 13:51:51
Access level:the public Released:2017-08-07 13:51:51
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]