Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.6° N, 108.6° W: paleocoordinates 44.0° N, 79.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Fruitland Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• 'Fruitland Formation'. However, Tsaya is nowhere within 3 miles of Coal Creek or of an exposure of the Fruitland, although it comes close in the northeast. Coal Creek does run through exposures of the Fruitland Formation and it is possible that the location of Tsaya has changed. The horizon should be accepted with reservations.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
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 100675: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 11.12.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Baena nodosa" = Denazinemys nodosa
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