Sand Creek (125 ft level) [ROM] (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Aspideretes rugosus type, DPP, U.T.

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.7° N, 111.5° W: paleocoordinates 57.9° N, 75.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Belly River Group, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by University of Toronto in 1921; reposited in the ROM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical

Primary reference: W. A. Parks. 1933. New species of dinosaurs and turtles from the Upper Cretaceous formations of Alberta. University of Toronto Studies, Geological Series 34:1-33 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 177140: authorized by David Nicholson, entered by David Nicholson on 21.03.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Trionychidae
"Aspideretes rugosus n. sp." = Trionyx foveatus
"Aspideretes rugosus n. sp." = Trionyx foveatus Leidy 1856 softshell turtle
ROM No. 4664 Ct.