DMNH 7179 (Cretaceous of the United States)
Where: Fallon County, Montana (46.3° N, 104.5° W: paleocoordinates 52.8° N, 77.4° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Hell Creek Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• 7.5 m below the contact with the overlying Fort Union Formation
Environment/lithology: "channel"; sandstone
• at base of 2 m thick channel sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: W. G. Joyce and T. R. Lyson. 2017. The shell morphology of the latest Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) trionychid turtle Helopanoplia distincta. PeerJ 5(e4169):1-20 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 190696: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 14.12.2017
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Reptilia | |
Helopanoplia distincta Hay 1908 turtle |