Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.3° N, 108.0° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 46.6° N, 70.9° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Kirtland Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C. H. Sternberg in 1923; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1935. On the Reptilia of the Kirtland Formation of New Mexico, with descriptions of new species of fossil turtles. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 83(2978):159-188 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 100583: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 10.12.2010
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Baena ornata" = Scabremys ornata
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