North Platte River (Oligocene of the United States)

Also known as near Captain Terry's Ranch

Where: Nebraska (41.1° N, 100.7° W: paleocoordinates 41.9° N, 94.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

• "geological occurrence unrecorded but undoubtedly Oligocene"

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by A. S. Shelly in 1874

Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1928. Fossil lizards of North America. Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences 22(3):1-201 [J. Head/J. Head/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180114: authorized by Paul Barrett, entered by Terri Cleary on 08.07.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata -
Peltosaurus granulosus Cope 1873 squamates
YPM 1065, nearly complete rigth dentary with teeth and anterior portion of left