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Axestemys montinsana Vitek, 2012

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Rank: Species
No BHL Results
Parent: Axestemys Cope, 1872
Specific Name: montinsana
Authorship: Vitek
Publication: Vitek, Natasha S. 2012 Giant fossil soft-shelled turtles of North America. Palaeontologia Electronica 15(Issue 1, Article 13A): 1-43.
Page: p. 22
Figure(s): Figure 14-18
Type Specimen(s): University of Michigan UMMP 27029, a skull, partial lower jaw, partial carapace, fragmentary entoplastron, hyoplastron, and hypoplastron, xiphiplastron, five cervical vertebrae, a partial pelvic girdle, two humeri, a femur, and various disarticulated appendicular elements
Type Locality: Scarritt Quarry, (early Tiffanian, Ti2) Melville Formation, eastern Crazy Mountains Basin, Montana, USA.
Fossil: Yes