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 | |
Basilemys gaffneyi n. sp.
Basilemys gaffneyi n. sp. Sullivan et al. 2012 turtle |