Pawnee Creek beds (Oligocene of the United States)

Also known as 30 miles north of Sterling

Where: Logan County, Colorado (40.6° N, 103.2° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 97.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: White River Group, Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

• Probably Brule Fm, but unstated.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by C. J. Hesse in 1925

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180120: authorized by Paul Barrett, entered by Terri Cleary on 08.07.2016

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Anguidae
Parophisaurus pawneensis n. gen. n. sp.
Parophisaurus pawneensis n. gen. n. sp. Gilmore 1928 squamates
KU 1281 (holotype), median section of articulated skull with median part of attached right ramus