Pawnee Creek beds (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Logan County, Colorado (40.6° N, 103.2° W: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 97.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by H. T. Martin in 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 180115: authorized by Paul Barrett, entered by Terri Cleary on 08.07.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Anguidae
Glyptosaurus sp. Marsh 1871 squamates
KU 1285, median portion of left ramus with basal portions of several teeth
 Squamata -
Peltosaurus granulosus Cope 1873 squamates
KU 1284, posterior portion of right maxilla with 5 teeth