Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.2° N, 107.9° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 79.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Kirtland Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• 75 ft above base of formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Reeside & Clark in 1916; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1919. Reptilian faunas of the Torrejon, Puerco, and underlying Upper Cretaceous formations of San Juan County, New Mexico. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 119:1-68 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 62548: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.07.2006, edited by David Nicholson
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Plastomenus robustus n. sp." = Trionyx robustus
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