Where: Sioux County, Nebraska (42.5° N, 103.8° W: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 95.7° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Brule Formation (White River Group), Orellan (33.9 - 33.3 Ma)
• "Oreodon beds" = Brule Fm
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by E. Raymond Hall in 1922
Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1928. Fossil lizards of North America. Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences 22(3):1-201 [J. Head/J. Head/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 180108: authorized by Paul Barrett, entered by Terri Cleary on 07.07.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Peltosaurus granulosus Cope 1873 squamates KU 1280, nearly complete skull and lower jaws, cervicals, dermal scutes of the neck, and fragmentary parts of the pectoral arch
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