Also known as Alamo Wash
Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.3° N, 108.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 79.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hunter Wash Member (Kirtland Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• member assignment "probable"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by G. F. Sternberg in 1929; reposited in the USNM
• all specimens were apparently collected by Sternberg during this field season
Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1930. Fossil hunting in New Mexico. Explorations and Field-Work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1929 3060:17-22 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 76760: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 03.12.2007, edited by John Alroy and David Nicholson
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Aspideretes vorax" = Trionyx austerus1
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"Baena nodosa" = Denazinemys nodosa1, Boremys grandis n. sp.1, "Baena ornata n. sp." = Scabremys ornata2, Thescelus hemispherica n. sp.1, Thescelus cf. hemispherica3
Boremys grandis n. sp.1 Gilmore 1935 turtle USNM 12979 (Gilmore, 1935, pp. 170-173, figs. 9, 10, pl. 15, type of B. grandis), an almost complete shell.
"Baena ornata n. sp." = Scabremys ornata2 Gilmore 1935 turtle Holotype, USNM 13229; USNM 12821, shell (Collector: C. W. Gilmore, 1929)
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