Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.7° N, 108.2° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 47.5° N, 76.4° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Nacimiento Formation, Puercan to Puercan (66.0 - 60.9 Ma)

• There is some doubt regarding the level at which the specimen was secured, but it is supposed that it came from the beds above the upper conglomerate; therefore above the dinosaur beds" (ibid.). Probably Paleocene, Nacimiento Formation.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. H. Gardner and J. W. Gidley in 1909; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: E. S. Gaffney. 1972. The systematics of the North American family Baenidae (Reptilia, Cryptodira). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 147(5):245-312 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 128453: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 09.06.2012

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