Where: Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos Islands (21.5° N, 71.1° W: paleocoordinates 21.5° N, 71.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by Keegan, Carlson and Co. in 1995-1997
• University of Florida
Primary reference: R. Franz, L. A. Carlson, R. D. Owen and D. Steadman. 2001. Fossil tortoises from the Turks and Caicos Islands, B.W.I. Proceedings of the 8th Symposium on the Natural History of the Bahamas 27-31 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 190751: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 16.12.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Chelonoidis alburyorum Franz and Franz 2009 turtle |