SMP Loc. 365, Ah-shi-sle-pah Wash (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.1° N, 108.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 79.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hunter Wash Member (Kirtland Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• orig. assigned to Fruitland Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. M. Sullivan in 1998

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: R. M. Sullivan and G. E. Bennett. 2000. A juvenile Parasaurolophus (Ornithischia: Hadrosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous Fruitland Formation of New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 17:215-220 [J. Head/J. Head/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 47193: authorized by Jason Head, entered by Jason Head on 17.02.2005, edited by David Nicholson and Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines -
Testudines indet.1 Batsch 1788 turtle
SMP VP-1091 ungual
 Testudines - Adocidae
cf. Adocus sp.1 Cope 1868 turtle
SMP VP-1477 carapace fragment
 Testudines - Pantrionychidae
Aspideretoides sp.1 Gardner et al. 1995 turtle
SMP VP-1519 carapace fragments
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet.1 Gray 1825 softshell turtle
SMP VP-1476 plastron fragment, SMP VP-1513 carapace/plastron fragments, SMP VP-1817 two carapace fragments, SMP VP-1857 incomplete costal
 Testudines - Nanhsiungchelyidae
Basilemys cf. gaffneyi1 Sullivan et al. 2012 turtle
SMP VP-1475 edge of carapace
cf. Basilemys gaffneyi1 Sullivan et al. 2012 turtle
SMP VP-1146 terminal phalanx
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet.2 Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
SMP VP-1440, 1816, 1818, 1858
Lambeosaurinae indet.2 Parks 1923 lambeosaurine
SMP VP-1144
Parasaurolophus sp. Parks 1922 lambeosaurine
SMP VP-1090, partial skull