Also known as San Ildefonso Locality
Where: Santa Fe County, New Mexico (35.1° N, 106.1° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 103.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Pojoaque Member (Tesuque Formation), Barstovian (16.3 - 12.5 Ma)
• Most of the mammalian fossils collected from the Pojoaque Member co-occur in the chron C5AB and C5AC interval at 14.3–13.3 Ma (Tedford et al., 2004)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Ted Galusha; reposited in the AMNH
Primary reference: J. R. Bourque. 2012. An extinct mud turtle of the Kinosternon flavescens group (Testudines, Kinosternidae) from the middle Miocene (late Barstovian) of New Mexico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32:68-81 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 190947: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 30.12.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Kinosternon pojoaque n. sp.
Kinosternon pojoaque n. sp. Bourque 2012 mud turtle AMNH FAM12744 (holotype), a nearly complete subadult skeleton
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