south branch, Sand Creek [USNM] (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.7° N, 111.5° W: paleocoordinates 57.9° N, 75.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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 Levi Sternberg in 1917

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 128460: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 09.06.2012

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata - Baenidae
"Boremys albertensis n. sp." = Boremys pulchra
"Boremys albertensis n. sp." = Boremys pulchra Lambe 1906 turtle
USNM 8803 (Gilmore, 1919a, pp. 119-123, figs. 3, 4, pls. 33, 34, type of Boremys albertensis), a complete plastron and a partial carapace