OMNH V1332 (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Also known as Dick Canyon

Where: Fall River County, South Dakota (43.2° N, 103.5° W: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 52.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Chilson Member (Lakota Formation), Berriasian to Berriasian (145.0 - 132.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

• OMNH locality V1332 lies just above the base of a massive, unit 2 sandstone overlying the gray mudstone. This channel sandstone and its contact with the underlying gray mudstone can be traced up the canyon of the Cheyenne River.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: W. J. Joyce, Y. Rollot, and R. L. Cifelli. 2020. A new species of baenid turtle from the Early Cretaceous Lakota Formation of South Dakota. Fossil Record 23:1-23 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 207800: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 12.02.2020

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudinata - Baenidae
Lakotemys australodakotensis n. gen. n. sp.
Lakotemys australodakotensis n. gen. n. sp. Joyce et al. 2020 turtle
This site yielded a partial skull (OMNH 66106) and a nearly complete shell (OMNH 67133)