SMP Loc. 382 (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 in 2005

Primary reference: R. M. Sullivan and D. W. Fowler. 2006. New specimens of the rare ankylosaurid dinosaur Nodocephalosaurus kirtlandensis (Ornithischia: Ankylosauridae) 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 35:259-261 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76763: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 03.12.2007, edited by David Nicholson

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata - Baenidae
Denazinemys nodosa1 Gilmore 1916 turtle
SMP VP-1869 complete carapace & plastron
 Testudines -
Testudines indet.1 Batsch 1788 turtle
SMP VP-2381
 Testudines - Trionychidae
"Aspideretoides austerus" = Trionyx austerus1
"Aspideretoides austerus" = Trionyx austerus1 Hay 1908 softshell turtle
SMP VP-1868 costals & nuchal
 Testudines - Adocidae
cf. Adocus sp.1 Cope 1868 turtle
SMP VP-2382 carapace fragment
? Adocus sp.1 Cope 1868 turtle
SMP VP-1956 neural
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet.2 Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
SMP VP-1316, 2380, 2497
cf. Hadrosauridae indet.2 Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
SMP VP-1740
 Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae
Nodocephalosaurus kirtlandensis Sullivan 1999 ankylosaurid
SMP VP-1957