SMP Loc. 421 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Hunter Wash

Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.3° N, 108.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 79.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hunter Wash Member (Kirtland Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

Primary reference: R. M. Sullivan, S. E. Jasinski, and S. G. Lucas. 2012. Re-assessment of Late Campanian (Kirtlandian) turtles from the Upper Cretaceous Fruitland and Kirtland formations, San Juan Basin, New Mexico, USA. In D. B. Brinkman, P. A. Holroyd, J. D. Gardner (eds.), Morphology and Evolution of Turtles 337-387 [D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 154379: authorized by David Nicholson, entered by David Nicholson on 19.02.2014, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata - Baenidae
Baenidae indet. Cope 1882 turtle
SMP VP-2055 costal fragment
Thescelus sp. Hay 1908 turtle
SMP VP-2100 plastron & carapace (incorrectly labelled T. rapiens in reference's appendix table), SMP VP-2168 nearly complete carapace & plastron
Neurankylus cf. baueri Gilmore 1916 turtle
SMP VP-2102 incomplete carapace & nearly complete plastron
 Testudines -
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
SMP VP-2035 unidentified girdle element, SMP VP-2037 nearly complete left humerus, SMP VP-2084 incomplete right humerus, SMP VP-2433 distal & proximal ends of a limb bone
 Testudines - Pantrionychidae
"Plastomeninae indet." = Plastomenidae
"Plastomeninae indet." = Plastomenidae Hay 1902 turtle
SMP VP-2034 three carapace fragments
 Testudines - Adocidae
Adocus sp. Cope 1868 turtle
SMP VP-2032 part of carapace, SMP VP-2033 carapace fragments
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
SMP VP-2041, 2053, 2060-2062, 2086, 2169, 2184, 2199, 2206, 2228, 2239, 2240