Testudo gilbertii type locality: Tortonian - Zanclean, Kansas
collected by Sternberg

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Xerobates undata (Cope 1875)
    = Testudo gilbertii n. sp. Hay 1899
Hay 1899
recombined as Hesperotestudo gilbertii
KU 1245 (holotype), a skull and mandible (Gilbert 1898, figs. 1–4; Hay 1908, pl. 80.2–5; Schultze et al. 1985).
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kansas County:Phillips
Coordinates: 39.8° North, 99.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.1° North, 97.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Neogene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Tortonian - Zanclean Mammal zone: Hemphillian
Age range of interval:11.63000 - 3.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ogallala
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Collection size:2 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Sternberg
Collection method comments: Kansas University
Metadata
Database number:191555
Authorizer:E. Vlachos Enterer:E. Vlachos
Created:2018-02-01 13:11:37 Last modified:2018-02-01 13:11:37
Access level:the public Released:2018-02-01 13:11:37
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
64613. J. Z. Gilbert. 1898. On the skull of Xerobates (?) undata Cope. Kansas University Quaterly 8:143-148 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]

Secondary references:

55607 O. P. Hay. 1899. On the nomenclature of certain American fossil vertebrates. The American Geologist 24:345-349 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]