Where: Jefferson County, Colorado (39.7° N, 105.1° W: paleocoordinates 46.4° N, 81.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Laramie Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Reposited in the DMNH
Primary reference: J. H. Hutchison and P. A. Holroyd. 2003. Late Cretaceous and early Paleocene turtles of the Denver Basin, Colorado. Rocky Mountain Geology 38(1):121-142 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 176740: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 28.02.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Compsemys victa Leidy 1856 turtle | |
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle | |
Basilemys cf. sinuosa Riggs 1906 turtle |