Fossil Forest, NMMNH L-4015 (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 nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the NMMNH

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: T. E. Williamson. 2000. Review of Hadrosauridae (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the San Juan Basin, New Mexico. In S. G. Lucas and A. B. Heckert (eds.), Dinosaurs of New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 17:191-213 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62317: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.07.2006, edited by David Nicholson

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata - Baenidae
Baenidae indet.3 Cope 1882 turtle
NMMNH P-27632, NMMNH P-27759, NMMNH P-27762
Neurankylus baueri3 Gilmore 1916 turtle
NMMNH P-27788
Neurankylus cf. baueri3 Gilmore 1916 turtle
NMMNH P-27776
Denazinemys nodosa2 Gilmore 1916 turtle
NMMNH P-27732, 27830, 30817
 Testudines -
Testudines indet.3 Batsch 1788 turtle
NMMNH P-27827
 Testudines - Pantrionychidae
"Plastomeninae indet." = Plastomenidae3 Hay 1902 turtle
NMMNH P-27479
Aspideretoides sp.3 Gardner et al. 1995 turtle
NMMNH P-27829
? Aspideretoides sp.3 Gardner et al. 1995 turtle
NMMNH P-27782
 Testudines - Trionychidae
"Aspideretoides robustus" = Trionyx robustus3, "Aspideretoides cf. robustus" = Trionyx robustus3
"Aspideretoides robustus" = Trionyx robustus3 Gilmore 1919 softshell turtle
NMMNH P-27779, NMMNH P-27826, NMMNH P-27572, NMMNH P-27628, NMMNH P-27633, NMMNH P-27752, NMMNH P-27768, NMMNH P-27777
"Aspideretoides cf. robustus" = Trionyx robustus3 Gilmore 1919 softshell turtle
NMMNH P-27769
 Testudines - Adocidae
Adocus sp.3 Cope 1868 turtle
NMMNH P-27601, NMMNH P-27629, NMMNH P-27760, NMMNH P-27774
? Adocus sp.3 Cope 1868 turtle
NMMNH P-27781
 Testudines - Nanhsiungchelyidae
Basilemys cf. gaffneyi3 Sullivan et al. 2012 turtle
NMMNH P-27613, NMMNH P-27623, NMMNH P-27630, NMMNH P-27775
 Loricata - Goniopholididae
cf. Denazinosuchus sp.1 Lucas and Sullivan 2003 crocodilian
NMMNH P-27745, 31151
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet.4 Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
NMMNH P-32642; radius, partial humerus
Hadrosaurinae indet. Lambe 1918 hadrosaurine
NMMNH P-27473
Parasaurolophus sp. Parks 1922 lambeosaurine
NMMNH P-28967