Also known as Fossil Forest
Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.1° N, 107.8° W: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 79.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Fossil Forest Member (Fruitland Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the NMMNH
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 154386: authorized by David Nicholson, entered by David Nicholson on 19.02.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Adocus sp. Cope 1868 turtle NMMNH P-22747 carapace/plastron fragments, NMMNH P-22740 carapace fragments, NMMNH P-22750 incomplete costals
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Basilemys cf. gaffneyi Sullivan et al. 2012 turtle NMMNH P-22742 shell fragments, NMMNH P-22744 various shell fragments
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