Little Sandhill Creek, about 3 miles above the juncture with Red Deer River (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.7° N, 111.5° W: paleocoordinates 57.9° N, 75.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Oldman Formation (Belly River Group), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. M. Sternberg; reposited in the NMC

• NMC National Museum of Canada, collection

Primary reference: E. S. Gaffney. 1972. The systematics of the North American family Baenidae (Reptilia, Cryptodira). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 147(5):245-312 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123097: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 11.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata - Baenidae
Plesiobaena antiqua Lambe 1902 turtle
NMC 8599 (partial skeleton)