Where: Logan County, Colorado (40.8° N, 103.1° W: paleocoordinates 42.0° N, 95.2° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Scenic Member (Brule Formation), Orellan (33.9 - 33.3 Ma)
• "Oreodon zone, White River Formation, Oligocene"
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•Oreodon zone = Scenic Member of Brule Formation, according to 59723
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by W. D. Matthew, H. T. Martin in 1898, 1925
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 180029: authorized by Paul Barrett, entered by Terri Cleary on 06.07.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Heloderma matthewi n. sp." = Lowesaurus matthewi, Peltosaurus granulosus
"Heloderma matthewi n. sp." = Lowesaurus matthewi Gilmore 1928 squamates AMNH No. 990A (holotype), posterior portion of left maxilla with three teeth. Estes 1983): KU 7652, maxilla
Peltosaurus granulosus Cope 1873 squamates AMNH No. 990, considerable portion of right dentary with 13 teeth; KU 1282, complete left dentary with teeth
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