RAM V201017, GS-ENM (Cretaceous of the United States)

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

•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

• The Kaiparowits Formation is a non-marine sequence that was deposited upon a low-relief inland alluvial plain environment (Roberts et al. 2005). Radiometric dating demonstrates that it spans 76.1–74 Ma and thus dates to the Judithian North American Land Mammal Age (Cifelli et al. 2004; Roberts et al. 2005). It is contemporaneous with a number of well-studied late Campanian terrestrial vertebrate faunas of western North America (Gates et al. 2010).

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

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
Teratophoneus curriei n. gen. n. sp.
Teratophoneus curriei n. gen. n. sp. Carr et al. 2011 tyrannosaurine
BYU 8120