SMP Loc. 409 (Cretaceous of the United States)

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

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
SMP VP-1703, 3347
 Testudines -
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
SMP VP-3343 incomplete plastron, SMP VP-3344 incompete plastron
 Testudines - Pantrionychidae
cf. Aspideretoides sp. Gardner et al. 1995 turtle
SMP VP-1810 carapace fragment
 Testudines - Trionychidae
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
 Testudinata - Baenidae
cf. Denazinemys nodosa Gilmore 1916 turtle
SMP VP-1704 partial carapace & plastron