Sand Creek [USNM] (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Aspideretes latus type

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 Levi Sternberg in 1917; reposited in the UNSM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical

Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1919. New fossil turtles, with notes on two described species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 56(2282):113-132 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 177169: authorized by David Nicholson, entered by David Nicholson on 22.03.2016

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Trionychidae
"Apalone latus" = Trionyx latus, "Aspideretes latus n. sp." = Trionyx latus
"Apalone latus" = Trionyx latus Gilmore 1919 softshell turtle
Referred specimens TMP 67.9.26 costal, TMP 80.8.116, 90.36.142 carapaces
"Aspideretes latus n. sp." = Trionyx latus Gilmore 1919 softshell turtle
USNM 8802