NMMNH Loc. 6547 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Hunter Wash?

Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.3° N, 108.5° W: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 79.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Member and formation not known for certain

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the NMMNH

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 154430: authorized by David Nicholson, entered by David Nicholson on 20.02.2014

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Trionychidae
"Aspideretoides cf. robustus" = Trionyx robustus
"Aspideretoides cf. robustus" = Trionyx robustus Gilmore 1919 softshell turtle
NMMNH P-49848 (UA 14397) shell fragment
 Testudines - Adocidae
Adocus sp. Cope 1868 turtle
NMMNH P-49849 (UA 14402) two shell fragments