Also known as Princeton University
Where: Carbon County, Montana (45.2° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 50.5° N, 90.0° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Tongue River Member (Fort Union Formation), Clarkforkian (56.2 - 54.9 Ma)
• Bear Creek Local Fauna, Clarkforkian 1
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Princeton University in the 1950s; reposited in the YPM
Primary reference: W. G. Joyce, A. Revan, T. R. Lyson and I. G. Danilov. 2009. Two new plastomenine softshell turtles from the Paleocene of Montana and Wyoming. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 50(2):307-325 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 137834: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 21.12.2012, edited by Bethany Allen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Hutchemys arctochelys n. sp.
Hutchemys arctochelys n. sp. Joyce et al. 2009 turtle YPM PU 16319 - type (a nearly complete carapace); paratypes: YPM PU 16320 (nearly complete carapace); YPM PU 16321 (nearly complete plastron lacking epiplastra); YPM PU 16322 (nearly complete plastron lacking epiplastra); YPM PU 16238 (partial plastron consisting of left hyoplastron, left xiphiplastron, and a partial left hypoplastron and various costal fragments)
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"Judithemys backmani" = Osteopygis backmani
"Judithemys backmani" = Osteopygis backmani Russell 1934 turtle YPM VPPU 016235 (a nearly complete, though heavily fractured, carapace and plastron) and YPM VPPU 016237 (a heavily fragmented carapace, left epiplastron, and right hypoplastron); initially identified as Protochelydra sp., but examination of the material by Parham (2005) indicated that both turtles belong to “Macrobaenidae”
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Titanoides sp. Gidley 1917 pantodont | |