Where: Atascosa County, Texas (28.9° N, 98.5° W: paleocoordinates 29.0° N, 97.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• none given. Museum labels claims "Miocene" but Hay says it is probably Pliocene.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: collected by E. W. Marnock
Primary reference: O. P. Hay. 1902. Description of two species of extinct tortoises, one new. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 54:383-388 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34388: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 28.08.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Testudo atascosae n. sp.
Testudo atascosae n. sp. Hay 1902 turtle |