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TITLE: | First record of a turtle (Protochelydra, Chelydridae, Testudines) from the Cenozoic of Alaska (Chickaloon Formation, Paleocene–Eocene)
| AUTHOR: | J. Howard Hutchison and Anne D. Pasch
| JOURNAL: | PaleoBios
| PUBLISHED: | May 15, 2004
| NOTES: | 24(1)
| ABSTRACT: | A chelydrid turtle from the late Paleocene (Clarkforkian NALMA) of the Chickaloon Formation, near Anchorage, is the first record of a turtle from the Cenozoic of Alaska and the most northerly record of the family known thus far. The specimen consists of a partial carapace from a plant-rich carbonaceous mudstone. It compares most closely with Protochelydra zangerli from the late Paleocene (Tiffanian NALMA) of North Dakota.
| COLLECTION: | PaleoBios Archive Public
| ID: | 231
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