Where: Sandoval County, New Mexico (35.7° N, 107.0° W: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 87.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Nacimiento Formation, Torrejonian (63.8 - 60.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the NMMNH

• Referral of Parodaxosaurus to NMMNH locality 312 is based on Sullivan's 1986 referral of the types to the same locality ("Torreon Wash") as Plesiorhinura and Machaerosaurus (from Williamson and Lucas, 1993).

Primary reference: R. M. Sullivan. 1986. A new fossil anguid lizard Parodaxosaurus sanjuanensis, new genus, new species from the middle Paleocene (Torrejonian) Nacimiento Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico. Journal of Herpetology 20(1):109-111 [J. Head/J. Head/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 34495: authorized by Jason Head, entered by Jason Head on 03.09.2003

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