Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.4° N, 108.6° W: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 79.9° W)
• 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. W. Sternberg in 1929; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1930. Fossil hunting in New Mexico. Explorations and Field-Work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1929 3060:17-22 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 100679: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 11.12.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Aspideretes ovatus n. sp." = Trionyx robustus
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