Where: Fallon County, Montana (46.2° N, 104.2° W: paleocoordinates 52.5° N, 77.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Hell Creek Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Brice and Marshall Lambert in 1961
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),
• The specimen described below (CCM 60-15) was made available through the generosity of Marshall Lambert ofthe Carter County Museum, Ekalaka, Montana.
Primary reference: P. A. Meylan and E. S. Gaffney. 1989. The skeletal morphology of the Cretaceous Cryptodiran turtle, Adocus, and the relationships of the Trionychidae. American Museum Novitates 2941:1-60 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 129262: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 22.06.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
|