Also known as The Blues, BYU-Teratophoneus type locality
Where: Garfield County, Utah (37.5° N, 111.5° W: paleocoordinates 45.4° N, 82.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Member (Kaiparowits Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• Upper Campanian Kaiparowits Formation
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•Horizon—Upper portion of the middle unit of the Kaiparowits Formation, 17 m above an ash bed tentatively correlated to ash KBC-109, which has been dated to 75.51± 0.15 Ma
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by BYU, Brigham Young University in the 1980s
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: A. L. Titus, J. D. Powell, E. M. Roberts, S. D. Sampson, S. L. Pollock, J. I. Kirkland, and L. B. Albright. 2005. Late Cretaceous stratigraphy, depositional environments, and macrovertebrate paleontology of the Kaiparowits Plateau, Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, Utah. In J. Pederson & C. M. Dehler (ed.), Interior Western United States. Geological Society of America Field Guide 6:101-128 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 137833: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 21.12.2012, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Teratophoneus curriei n. gen. n. sp.
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