NMMNH Loc. 6622 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as De-na-zin?

Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.3° N, 108.2° W: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 85.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Naashoibito Member (Ojo Alamo Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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 154429: authorized by David Nicholson, entered by David Nicholson on 20.02.2014, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Pantrionychidae
Aspideretoides sp. Gardner et al. 1995 turtle
NMMNH P-49832 (UA 14412) costal fragment
 Testudines - Adocidae
Adocus sp. Cope 1868 turtle
NMMNH P-49831 (UA 14411) shell fragment
Mammalia
 Tribosphenida - Alphadontidae
Alphadon marshi Simpson 1927 metatherian
NMMNH P-49828
 Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae
Mesodma formosa Marsh 1889 multituberculate
NMMNH P-49829, 49830