2 Miles Above Hunter's Store (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Hunters Wash

Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.3° N, 108.6° W: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 79.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kirtland Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. H. Sternberg in 1923; reposited in the USNM

• possibly the same spot as collection 52874, but collected by a different collector eight years later

Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1935. On the Reptilia of the Kirtland Formation of New Mexico, with descriptions of new species of fossil turtles. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 83(2978):159-188 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 100677: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 11.12.2010, edited by David Nicholson

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Nanhsiungchelyidae
Basilemys gaffneyi n. sp. Sullivan et al. 2012 turtle