3 miles below Steveville [USNM] (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.8° N, 111.6° W: paleocoordinates 58.1° N, 76.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Oldman Formation (Belly River Group), Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by B. McKee in 1917; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• Bruce McKee collector

Primary reference: E. S. Gaffney. 1972. The systematics of the North American family Baenidae (Reptilia, Cryptodira). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 147(5):245-312 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123086: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 10.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata - Baenidae
Plesiobaena antiqua Lambe 1902 turtle
USNM 8801 (almost complete shell)