Where: Mona Island, Puerto Rico (18.1° N, 67.9° W: paleocoordinates 18.1° N, 67.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by H.E. Anthony, G.G. Goodwin in 1926; reposited in the AMNH
Primary reference: E. E. Williams. 1952. A new fossil tortoise from Mona Island, West-Indies, and a tentative arrangement of the tortoises of the world. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 99(9):545-560 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 190712: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 14.12.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Testudo (Monachelys) monensis n. sp." = Chelonoidis monensis
"Testudo (Monachelys) monensis n. sp." = Chelonoidis monensis Williams 1952 turtle AMNH 1969, first dorsal vertebra; AMNH 1935, first dorsal vertebra; AMNH 1936, various elements
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