Where: Blaine County, Montana (47.8° N, 108.9° W: paleocoordinates 54.7° N, 75.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Judith River Formation (Montana Group), Middle Campanian to Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. B. Hatcher in 1887; reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: mechanical
Primary reference: O. P. Hay. 1908. Descriptions of five species of North American fossil turtles, four of which are new. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 35:161-169 [D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 177030: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 16.03.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Aspideretes granifer n. sp." = Axestemys splendidus
|