Lance Creek area (non-specific) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Niobrara County, Wyoming (43.2° N, 104.3° W: paleocoordinates 49.6° N, 79.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Lance Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by uncertain in known; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1928. Fossil lizards of North America. Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences 22(3):1-201 [J. Head/J. Head/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 118461: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 14.10.2011, edited by Terri Cleary

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Anguidae
"Odaxosaurus obliquus n. gen. n. sp." = Odaxosaurus piger
"Odaxosaurus obliquus n. gen. n. sp." = Odaxosaurus piger Gilmore 1928 squamates
USNM 10751 (holotype), median portion of right dentary; 10801, anterior portion of right dentary; 10804, median portion of right dentary (all coll. J. B. Hatcher, date unknown); USNM 10918, fragment of maxilla with four teeth (coll. Hatcher 1889, exact locality unknown)
 Squamata - Xenosauridae
Exostinus lancensis n. sp. Gilmore 1928 squamates
USNM 10689 (holotype maxilla)
 Squamata - Chamopsiidae
"Chamops denticulatus" = Leptochamops denticulatus, Chamops segnis n. gen. n. sp.
"Chamops denticulatus" = Leptochamops denticulatus Gilmore 1928 squamates
USNM 10805 (fentary coll. J. B. Hatcher 1891), 10919 (partial maxilla, coll. J. B. Hatcher 1892),
Chamops segnis n. gen. n. sp. Marsh 1892 squamates
YUM 1036 (holotype right maxilla/?dentary with five teeth)
 Squamata - Teiidae
Iguanavus teres n. sp. Marsh 1892 squamates
YUM 530 (dorsal vertebra)