SMP Loc. 398 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Hunter Wash

Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.3° N, 108.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 79.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• 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 class: macrofossils

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 154462: 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
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
SMP VP-1600, 1607–1609, 2510
Kritosaurus cf. navajovius Brown 1910 hadrosaurine
SMP VP-1662
 Testudinata - Baenidae
Baenidae indet. Cope 1882 turtle
SMP VP-1661 carapace & plastron fragments, SMP VP-1669 incomplete carapace & associated fragments
Denazinemys nodosa Gilmore 1916 turtle
SMP VP-1655 medial part of carapace, SMP VP-1667 complete plastron partial carapace & fragments, SMP VP-3255 plastron fragment, including part of xiphiplastron & bridge
? Denazinemys nodosa Gilmore 1916 turtle
SMP VP-1610 numerous carapace & plastron fragments
 Testudines - Adocidae
cf. Adocus sp. Cope 1868 turtle
SMP VP-1666 carapace & plastron fragments
 Testudines - Pantrionychidae
cf. Aspideretoides sp. Gardner et al. 1995 turtle
SMP VP-1594 carapace fragments, SMP VP-1595 carapace fragments
 Testudines - Trionychidae
"Aspideretoides robustus" = Trionyx robustus
"Aspideretoides robustus" = Trionyx robustus Gilmore 1919 softshell turtle
SMP VP-1667 incomplete nuchal both xiphiplastra & associated fragments