Curtiss Flats (Pliocene of the United States)

Where: Cochise County, Arizona (31.9° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 109.0° W)

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When: Chesapeake Group, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by J. W. Gidley, AMNH in 1921, 1924

Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1938. Fossil snakes of North America. Geological Society of America Special Paper (9)1-96 [J. Head/J. Head]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 125975: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 28.03.2012, edited by Terri Cleary

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Colubridae
Colubridae indet. Oppel 1811 colubrid snake
USNM 13687, three thoracic vertebrae; AMNH 3251, two vertebrae