south-central Willow Wash, SMP Loc. 361 (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; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. M. Sullivan & S. G. Lucas in 2004

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 76107: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.11.2007, edited by David Nicholson

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda - Troodontidae
Saurornitholestes robustus
Saurornitholestes robustus Sullivan 2006 maniraptoran
SMP VP-1741
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet.3
Hadrosauridae indet.3 Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
SMP VP-1101, 1738, 1742
 Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae
Nodocephalosaurus kirtlandensis1
Nodocephalosaurus kirtlandensis1 Sullivan 1999 ankylosaurid
SMP VP-1870, 2074 (tail club)
 Testudines - Adocidae
cf. Adocus sp.2
cf. Adocus sp.2 Cope 1868 turtle
SMP VP-1098 carapace & plastron fragments
 Testudines - Pantrionychidae
cf. Aspideretoides sp.2
cf. Aspideretoides sp.2 Gardner et al. 1995 turtle
SMP VP-1426 proximal end of left femur
 Testudines - Nanhsiungchelyidae
Basilemys cf. gaffneyi2
Basilemys cf. gaffneyi2 Sullivan et al. 2012 turtle
SMP VP-1382 carapace fragment
1Sullivan and Fowler 2006; 2Sullivan et al. 2012; 3Sullivan and Lucas 2014