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 class: macrofossils
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 154598: authorized by David Nicholson, entered by David Nicholson on 24.02.2014, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle SMP VP-3343 incomplete plastron, SMP VP-3344 incompete plastron
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Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle SMP VP-3348 incomplete costal, SMP VP-1690 carapace fragment, SMP VP-1691 carapace fragment, SMP VP-1695 carapace fragments
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