NMMNH L-9158 (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Sierra County, New Mexico (32.9° N, 107.1° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 40.9° N, 68.5° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Crevasse Canyon Formation (Mesaverde Group), Coniacian to Coniacian (89.8 - 83.6 Ma)

• "The site is in the Crevasse Canyon Formation, which, based on regional

•stratigraphic correlation, places it close to the Coniacian-Santonian

•boundary (Molenaar, 1983; Hook et al., 2012)"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. J. Lichtig and S. G. Lucas. 2016. A new species of Neurankylus (Testudines: Baenidae) from the Upper Cretaceous Crevasse Canyon Formation, southern New Mexico, USA. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 74:117-119 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 182494: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 02.11.2016

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata - Baenidae
Neurankylus notos n. sp. Lichtig and Lucas 2016 turtle
NMMNH P-70008, holotype