PBDB Collection

SMP Loc. 228 (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 154382: authorized by David Nicholson, entered by David Nicholson on 19.02.2014, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
Testudines -	Testudines indet. Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle SMP VP-1800 limb fragments, SMP VP-2681 incomplete plastron, SMP VP-2739 incomplete left femur, SMP VP-2747 cervical vertebra
Testudines - Adocidae	Adocus sp. Adocus sp. Cope 1868 turtle SMP VP-2818 carapace neural, SMP VP-3264 carapace fragments
Testudines - Trionychidae	Trionychidae indet., "Aspideretoides robustus" = Trionyx robustus Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle SMP VP-1509 carapace & plastron fragments, SMP VP-1567 carapace fragments, SMP VP-1947 incomplete costal, SMP VP-2716 carapace fragment, SMP VP-2819 carapace neural "Aspideretoides robustus" = Trionyx robustus Gilmore 1919 softshell turtle SMP VP-2166 carapace fragments
Testudines - Nanhsiungchelyidae	Basilemys cf. gaffneyi, cf. Basilemys gaffneyi Basilemys cf. gaffneyi Sullivan et al. 2012 turtle SMP VP-1510 plastron fragment, SMP VP-1852 limb osteoderm cf. Basilemys gaffneyi Sullivan et al. 2012 turtle SMP VP-1158 incomplete humerus
Testudines - Pantrionychidae	"Plastomeninae indet." = Plastomenidae, cf. Aspideretoides sp. "Plastomeninae indet." = Plastomenidae Hay 1902 turtle SMP VP-742 carapace & plastron fragments cf. Aspideretoides sp. Gardner et al. 1995 turtle SMP VP-1949 carapace fragment
Testudinata - Baenidae	Baenidae indet., ? Baenidae indet., Denazinemys nodosa, ? Denazinemys nodosa, Neurankylus cf. baueri Baenidae indet. Cope 1882 turtle SMP VP-1507 part of carapace, SMP VP-1798 dorsal vertebra, SMP VP-1964 costal ? Baenidae indet. Cope 1882 turtle SMP VP-2820 carapace neural Denazinemys nodosa Gilmore 1916 turtle SMP VP-1469 anterior part of plastron (intergular, gular, & humeral), SMP VP-1506 right plastron fragment (intergular, gular & humeral), SMP VP-1948 four carapace fragments ? Denazinemys nodosa Gilmore 1916 turtle SMP VP-2751 carapace fragments Neurankylus cf. baueri Gilmore 1916 turtle SMP VP-1931 partial carapace
Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae	Hadrosauridae indet. Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid SMP VP-977, 1388, 1508, 1794, 2135, 2145, 2146, 2148, 2451, 2676, 2679, 2710, 2711, 2717, 2750