Where: Pennington County, South Dakota (43.9° N, 102.4° W: paleocoordinates 45.0° N, 94.2° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Scenic Member (Brule Formation), Orellan (33.9 - 33.3 Ma)
• Lower Nodular Zone, SDSM Dry Plains Facies
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: S. J. ElShafie. 2024. Body size estimation from isolated fossil bones reveals deep time evolutionary trends in North American lizards. PLoS ONE 19(1:e0296318):1-25 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 232923: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 08.01.2024
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Peltosaurus sp. Cope 1873 squamates |