Where: Kern County, California (35.5° N, 117.8° W: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 100.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Goler Formation, Tiffanian (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coarse channel fill; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UCMP
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: J. H. Hutchison. 2004. A new eubaenine, Goleremys mckennai, gen. et. sp. n., (Baenidae: Testudines) from the Paleocene of California. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 36:91-96 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 139917: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 21.02.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Goleremys mckennai n. gen. n. sp.
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