UMNH VP Loc. 424, Pasture Wash (Cretaceous of the United States)

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

Actinopteri
 Ostariophysi -
Ostariophysi "indet. U-3"1 Jordan and Evermann 1896
UMNH VP 19137-38
 Teleostei -
Euteleostei "indet. U-4"1 Rosen 1973
UMNH VP 19136
 Acanthomorphata -
"Acanthomorpha indet." = Acanthomorphata1
"Acanthomorpha indet." = Acanthomorphata1 Rosen 1973
UMNH VP 19139
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae
Albanerpetontidae indet.2, "cf. Albanerpeton nexuosum" = Albanerpeton nexuosus2
Albanerpetontidae indet.2 Fox and Naylor 1982 tetrapod
"cf. Albanerpeton nexuosum" = Albanerpeton nexuosus2 Estes 1981 tetrapod
 Salientia -
Anura indet.2 Fischer von Waldheim 1813 frog
Scotiophryne pustulosa2 Estes 1969 frog
 Caudata - Urodela
Urodela "gen. et sp. nov."3 salamander
UMNH VP 19204–08
Scapherpeton sp.3 Cope 1876 salamander
UMNH VP 19179–82
Habrosaurus sp.3 Gilmore 1928 siren
UMNH VP 19201–03
 Proteida - Batrachosauroididae
Opisthotriton sp.3 Auffenberg 1961 salamander
UMNH VP 19189–92
Reptilia
 Squamata -
Platynota "indet. JHMbr SCFm Morphotype B" squamates
UMNH VP 19245, fragment of jaw
cf. Colpodontosaurus indet. Estes 1964 squamates
UMNH VP 19246, partial right dentary
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
Scincomorpha indet. squamates
UMNH VP 17342, osteoderm
Monocnemodon syphakos n. gen. n. sp. Nydam 2013 squamates
UMNH VP 17384 (holotype), partial right dentary