Vicinity of Cottonwood Creek (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Sioux County, Nebraska (42.5° N, 103.8° W: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 95.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Scenic Member (Brule Formation), Orellan (33.9 - 33.3 Ma)

• Lower Oreodon beds

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by J. W. Gidley, H. F. Wells in 1895

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 180113: authorized by Paul Barrett, entered by Terri Cleary on 08.07.2016

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata -
Peltosaurus granulosus Cope 1873 squamates
PU 11393, considerable portion of skull and attached right ramus