Niobrara County, United States Geological Survey (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Niobrara County, Wyoming (43.0° N, 104.5° W: paleocoordinates 49.5° N, 79.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lance Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. B. Hatcher, United States Geological Survey; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float)

Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1916. Description of two new species of turtles, from the Lance Formation of Wyoming. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 50(2137):614-646 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122902: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 07.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudinata - Baenidae
Baena hayi n. sp.
Baena hayi n. sp. Gilmore 1916 turtle
USNM 6728 (holotype carapace and plastron)
 Testudines - Pantrionychidae
"Aspideretes lancensis n. sp." = Gilmoremys lancensis
"Aspideretes lancensis n. sp." = Gilmoremys lancensis Gilmore 1916 turtle
USNM 6727 (type series: a nearly complete carapace and an an isolated hyoplastral fragment)