Where: Golden Valley County, North Dakota (47.0° N, 103.9° W: paleocoordinates 51.7° N, 83.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Sentinel Butte Member (Fort Union Formation), Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 55.8 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by B. R. Erickson, R. Lingk, E. Lingk in 1971
Primary reference: B. R. Erickson. 1972. The lepidosaurian reptile Champsosaurus in North America. The Science Museum of Minnesota, Monograph (Paleontology) 1:1-91 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 78394: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.02.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Champsosaurus gigas n. sp.
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