Also known as Bryce Canyon National Park
Where: Garfield County, Utah (37.6° N, 112.2° W: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 79.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: John Henry Member (Straight Cliffs Formation), Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)
• "uppermost John Henry Member", Paunsaugunt Plateau
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: R. L. Nydam. 2013. Lizards and snakes from the Cenomanian through Campanian of southern Utah: filling the gap in the fossil record of Squamata from the Late Cretaceous of the Western Interior of North America. In A. L. Titus & M. A. Loewen (ed.), At the Top of the Grand Staircase: The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah 370-423 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 181388: authorized by Paul Barrett, entered by Terri Cleary on 09.09.2016, edited by Patricia Holroyd and Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Acanthomorpha indet." = Acanthomorphata1
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Platynota "indet. JHMbr SCFm Morphotype B", cf. Colpodontosaurus indet., Autarchoglossa "indet. JHMbr SCFm Morphotype D", Coniophis sp., Scincomorpha indet., Monocnemodon syphakos n. gen. n. sp.
Autarchoglossa "indet. JHMbr SCFm Morphotype D" Wagler 1830 squamates UMNH VP 17298, incomplete fused frontal
Coniophis sp. Marsh 1892 snake UMNH VP 19242, trunk vertebra missing anterior right portion; 19243, trunk vertebra missing condyle, cotyle, and prezygapophysis; 19244, small caudal vertebra
Monocnemodon syphakos n. gen. n. sp. Nydam 2013 squamates UMNH VP 17384 (holotype), partial right dentary
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