Kimbetoh West [USNM] (Cretaceous of the United States)

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
 Testudines - Trionychidae
"Plastomenus robustus n. sp." = Trionyx robustus
"Plastomenus robustus n. sp." = Trionyx robustus Gilmore 1919 softshell turtle
USNM 8538