UCMP V95085 (Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Blasted Croc

Where: Kane County, Utah (37.3° N, 112.4° W: paleocoordinates 45.5° N, 83.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Kaiparowits Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: J. H. Hutchison, M. J. Knell, and D. Brinkman. 2013. Turtles from the Kaiparowits Formation, Utah. In A. L. Titus & M. A. Loewen (ed.), At the Top of the Grand Staircase: The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah 295-318 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 187704: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 07.08.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Kinosternidae
"Kinosternidae "new"" = Kinosternoidea
"Kinosternidae "new"" = Kinosternoidea Hay 1892 mud turtle
UCMP 194436, 194437, epiplastron; 194440, hyoplastron fragments; 194442, seven hypoplastron fragments; 194443, peripheral 2; 194448, peripheral 5 fragments; 194449, peripheral 6; 194450, peripheral 7; 194451 peripheral 9; 194452 peripheral 10; 194454 peripheral 10 fragment; 194455–194457, neurals; 194458, two costal 1 proximal ends; 194459, shell fragments