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White River - Chadron - Big Cottonwood Creek, Sioux County, Nebraska, USA

GroupWhite River
FormationChadron
MemberBig Cottonwood Creek
Age:37.2 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene
IntervalChadronian
Lithologysiliciclastic
Number of Collections3
Number of Occurrences6

Recorded Sample Locations

LocationRegionStratigraphic Name
Turkeyfoot East HighSioux County, Nebraska, USAWhite River - Chadron - Big Cottonwood Creek

Associated Units

Stratigraphic NameAgeLithologyOccurrence Records
White River - Brule - Orella33.9 - 33.3 Ma
Oligocene
siliciclastic6

Recorded Fossils

Accepted NameHierarchyAge
Gopherus laticuneus
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Testudinidae : Gopherus : Gopherus laticuneus37.2 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene
Stylemys nebrascensis
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Testudinidae : Stylemys : Stylemys nebrascensis37.2 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

References

Ehret D. J. (2007) Skeletochronology: a method for determing the individual age and growth of modern and fossil tortoises (Reptilia: Testudines), Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 47 2, 49-72
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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