SMP Loc. 350 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.3° N, 108.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 79.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: De-na-zin Member (Kirtland Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• "Kirtlandian"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by R. M. Sullivan & S. G. Lucas

Primary reference: R. M. Sullivan. 2006. Saurornitholestes robustus, n. sp. (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous Kirtland Formation (De-na-zin Member), San Juan Basin, New Mexico. In S. G. Lucas and R. M. Sullivan (eds.), Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35:253-256 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76106: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.11.2007, edited by David Nicholson

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata -
Compsemys sp.2 Leidy 1856 turtle
SMP VP-1892, SMP VP-1904, SMP VP-1915, SMP VP-1916, SMP VP-2002, SMP VP-2003, SMP VP-2006, SMP VP-2648
 Testudinata - Baenidae
Denazinemys nodosa1 Gilmore 1916 turtle
SMP VP-1284, 1287
 Testudines -
Testudines indet.2 Batsch 1788 turtle
SMP VP-1903, SMP VP-2000
 Testudines - Adocidae
Adocus sp.2 Cope 1868 turtle
SMP VP-1295 carapace & plastron fragments
 Testudines - Kinosternoidea
Kinosternoidea indet.2 mud turtle
SMP VP-1907, SMP VP-2004, SMP VP-2009, SMP VP-2533, SMP VP-3274
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet.3 Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
SMP VP-1897, 1913, 2007, 2422
 Theropoda - Troodontidae
Saurornitholestes robustus Sullivan 2006 maniraptoran
SMP VP-1901