SMP Loc. 282 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Hunter Wash

Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.2° N, 107.9° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 79.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hunter Wash Member (Kirtland Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, yellow, sandy mudstone

• "light-to-medium gray and tan sandy mudstones"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

Primary reference: R. M. Sullivan, S. E. Jasinski, and S. G. Lucas. 2012. Re-assessment of Late Campanian (Kirtlandian) turtles from the Upper Cretaceous Fruitland and Kirtland formations, San Juan Basin, New Mexico, USA. In D. B. Brinkman, P. A. Holroyd, J. D. Gardner (eds.), Morphology and Evolution of Turtles 337-387 [D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 154373: authorized by David Nicholson, entered by David Nicholson on 18.02.2014

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Adocidae
Adocus sp. Cope 1868 turtle
SMP VP-1504 costals