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Specimen #: T.82.01.17
Collection: Testudines > Toxochelys, Turtle
Status: stored
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Description
Ribs, Limb Elements, Shell Fragments, Skull Fragments, Vertebrae
Measurements (7.2 x 3.5 x 15.1 cm)
Rough measurements were made using a hand held ruler, not a set of calipers. The above rough measurements pertain only to the single Humerus associated with this specimen, located in Drawer 849.
Publications
NICHOLLS, E.L., T.T. TOKARYK, and L.V. HILLS. 1990. Cretaceous Marine Turtles From the Western Interior Seaway of Canada. Canadian Journal of earth Sciences, Volume 27, pp. 1288-1298. NICHOLLS, E.L. 1989. Marine Vertebrates of the Pembina Member of the Pierre Shale (Campanian, Upper Cretaceous) of Manitoba and their Significance to the Biogeography of the Western Interior Seaway. University of Calgary, pp. ii-317.
Details
| Common Name: | Toxochelys, Turtle |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Family: | Toxochelyidae |
| Genus: | Toxochelys |
| Species: | latiremis |
| Geo Period: | Cretaceous |
| Epoch: | Campanian |
| Formation: | Pierre Shale |
| Member: | Pembina |
| Current Location: | Manitoba Escarpment |
| Credit: | Dr. Elizabeth L. Nicholls, Henry Isaak, Don Bell |
Current Condition
Unknown