PTRM V86006 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Slope County, North Dakota (46.4° N, 103.4° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 56.3° N, 61.5° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Hell Creek Formation, Maastrichtian (72.2 - 66.0 Ma)

• 33.65 meters below contact with overlying Fort Union Formation

Environment/lithology: "channel"; sandstone

• soft sandstone channel

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. G. Joyce and T. R. Lyson. 2017. The shell morphology of the latest Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) trionychid turtle Helopanoplia distincta. PeerJ 5(e4169):1-20 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 190694: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 14.12.2017

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Pantrionychidae
Helopanoplia distincta Hay 1908 turtle