Seven Mile Creek (AMNH) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Wyoming (43.3° N, 104.6° W: paleocoordinates 49.8° N, 79.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lance Formation, Lancian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• " . . . Laramie beds..." (ibid.). Lance Formation on Wyoming Geologic Map (Love, Weitz, and Hose, 1955).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the AMNH

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 128558: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 11.06.2012

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata - Baenidae
Thescelus insiliens n. sp. Hay 1908 turtle
AMNH 1108 (Hay, 1908, pls. 24, 25), an almost complete shell