Meyers Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Ah-shi-sle-pah Wash

Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.1° N, 108.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 79.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. H. Sternberg in 1923; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1935. On the Reptilia of the Kirtland Formation of New Mexico, with descriptions of new species of fossil turtles. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 83(2978):159-188 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 100678: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 11.12.2010

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Taxonomic list

• not the same as 1921 Sternberg collections from the Meyers Creek area (39231 and 64094), which are in the Kirtland Formation
Reptilia
 Testudines - Adocidae
Adocus bossi Gilmore 1919 turtle