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
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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
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cf. Aspideretoides sp. Gardner et al. 1995 turtle SMP VP-1594 carapace fragments, SMP VP-1595 carapace fragments
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"Aspideretoides robustus" = Trionyx robustus
"Aspideretoides robustus" = Trionyx robustus Gilmore 1919 softshell turtle SMP VP-1667 incomplete nuchal both xiphiplastra & associated fragments
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