7 Miles Northwest of Brimhall's Store (Cretaceous of the United States)

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
 Testudines - Trionychidae
"Aspideretes ovatus n. sp." = Trionyx robustus
"Aspideretes ovatus n. sp." = Trionyx robustus Gilmore 1919 softshell turtle
U.S.N.M. No. 12986