Quinby (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as site 2

Where: Florence County, South Carolina (34.2° N, 79.7° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 51.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bladen Formation, Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone

• "A dark, shaly, laminated clay unit...the specimens were collected from below that outcrop in a lag deposit."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by D. Hudson, L. Hudson, F. Morning, R. Ogilvie, A. Perritt in 1989–1994

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: D. B. Weishampel and L. Young. 1996. Dinosaurs of the East Coast xiii-275 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 201600: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.05.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
tooth and bone fragments
 Loricata -
Eusuchia indet.
Eusuchia indet. crocodilian
ChM PV6826, skull fragment
 Crocodylia -
Deinosuchus rugosus, Gavialoidea indet.
Deinosuchus rugosus Emmons 1858 crocodilian
ChM PV6774, tooth
Gavialoidea indet. Brochu 1997 crocodilian
ChM PV5873, PV5878-80, PV6771-3, PV6829
 Loricata -
Borealosuchus sp.
Borealosuchus sp. Brochu 1997 crocodilian
ChM PV6770, osteoderm
 Plesiosauria -
Plesiosauria indet.
Plesiosauria indet. plesiosaur
ChM PV6768, vertebral centrum
 Testudines - Pantrionychidae
"Trionyx" halophilus, "Trionyx" priscus
"Trionyx" halophilus Cope 1869 turtle
ChM PV8935-6, PV8941-3, PV8946-7, PV8949-55, PV9128; SMM P2006.1.2
"Trionyx" priscus Cope 1869 turtle
ChM PV6792, PV6794, PV6814-5, PV6817-8
 Testudines - Pancheloniidae
Euclastes wielandi
Euclastes wielandi Hay 1908 turtle
ChM PV6781, peripheral