Baenid Skull Locality (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as UCMP V-75180; Palatobaena bairdi referred specimen

Where: Garfield County, Montana (47.6° N, 107.0° W: paleocoordinates 54.4° N, 80.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hell Creek Formation, Lancian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by D. Lawler in 1975; reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: J. D. Archibald and J. H. Hutchison. 1979. Revision of the genus Palatobaena (Testudines, Baenidae), with the description of a new species. Postilla 177:1-19 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 118483: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 14.10.2011

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata - Baenidae
Palatobaena bairdi Gaffney 1972 turtle
UCMP 114539 (fragmentary skull and jaws)