...Figure 3. Cedorbaena putorius skull (MRF 239) from Turtle Graveyard locality in the Hell Creek Formation (latest Maastrichtian) of southwestern North Dakota. Illustrations (bottom) and photographs (top) in dorsal (left), ventral (middle), and left lateral (right) views. Abbreviations: bo...

...T able 1 List of trionychid specimens collected at the Turtle Graveyard Site. ...

... is based on the fact that the shells, skulls, limbs, pectoral and pelvic girdle, and caudal and cervical vertebrae are preserved three-dimensionally. Specimens from the “Turtle Graveyard” locality in the Hell Creek data set (DMNH Loc. 6301; included in our data set) contain intact cortical bone (the outer...

...Figure 1 —Turtle Graveyard locality located in Slope County southwestern North Dakota in the Hell Creek Formation (Maastrichtian). Turtles are buried in a structureless, unconsolidated sandstone unit with rip-up clast stringers, which is overlain by a cross bedded sand unit and laminated clay unit ...

... are the Kyzylkum Desert south of the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan, several localities in Kazakhstan, and the Fergana Depression of Kirgizistan and Tadzhikistan. Many of these finds represent the efforts of the late Lev Nesov. Turtles, reviewed by Vladimir Sukhanov, have a very good record in the region (in Mongolia...

... 93.4 Old road from right 94.2 Old road from left 98.4 Old road from left along brecha 99.7 Good road from left 104.5 Road fork, take right fork 105.3 Graveyard on left 105.5 Turn left down street 105.7 Gas station, Agualeguas 105.8 Turn right 2 blocks (pink building...

... Formation, but instead identified them with the Devil’s Graveyard Formation. The correlative Canoe Formation nomenclature is preferred here for mapping purposes simply for sake of uniformity of use within the Park ( Turner et al., 2011 ). Figure 7. Geologic map of the region along Rough Run Creek...

... included several hadrosaurid vertebrae, numerous trionychid and compsemydid turtle shell fragments, and isolated gar fish scales—the first such finds ever recorded in Canada. Two of the turtle shell fragments (CMN 6838 and CMN 6839) Cope (1875a , b ) named “ Plastomenus coalescens ” and “ P. costatus...

... measured across the dinosaur-graveyard excavation pits is 308 feet. This world-famous formation consists chiefly of variegated shales, thin sandstones, lenses of limestone conglomerate, and fresh-water limestones at the base. Exposures of this formation have yielded many fossil reptile remains...

... other tetrapods such as squamates, turtles, and crocodilians, as well as most invertebrate groups, survived the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary (e.g., MacLeod et al., 1997 ; Novacek, 1999 ; Gelfo and Pascual, 2001 ; Lutz, 2005 ; Evans and Klembara, 2005 ; Goin et al., 2006 ; Longrich et al., 2011...

... ) , Loewen et al. (2010) , Miyashita et al. (2010 *), Ryan et al. (2010 b *), Tanke (2010 a *, 2010 b *), and Tanke and Rothschild (2010 *). Vertebrate Microfossil Workshop (13–17 June 2008; held at Dinosaur Provincial Park) Gaffney Turtle Symposium (17–18 October 2009)  • Edited book...

... it is possible that the actual Bridgerian–Uintan NALMA boundary is located somewhere below bed 633, it cannot be ascertained without identification of an earliest Uintan (Ui1a) mammalian assemblage (such as recognized in the Turtle Bluff Member of Bridger Formation; Murphey et al., 2018 ) within the Adobe Town...

.... (2008a , 2010) recalibrated the interval, C24 through C20 based on 40 Ar/ 39 Ar ages of ash beds, existing magnetostratigraphic data, NALMA biostratigraphy from the Bighorn Basin, Wind River Basin, Greater Green River Basin, Uinta Basin, Devil’s Graveyard Formation in Texas, and Absaroka volcanic...