Sand Creek (200 ft level) [UA] (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Aspideretes allani type

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.7° N, 111.6° W: paleocoordinates 58.1° N, 76.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Belly River Group, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• About 200 feet above the level of the river, Belly River formation, Upper Cretaceous.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G. F. Sternberg in 1920

Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1923. A new species of Aspideretes from the Belly River Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Section 4, Series 3 17:1-10 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 177170: authorized by David Nicholson, entered by David Nicholson on 22.03.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Trionychidae
"Aspideretes allani n. sp." = Trionyx allani
"Aspideretes allani n. sp." = Trionyx allani Gilmore 1923 softshell turtle
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