SUU Locality, Cedar Canyon (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Also known as MNA 1260, UMNH VP Loc. 8

Where: Iron County, Utah (35.6° N, 112.9° W: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 80.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: John Henry Member (Straight Cliffs Formation), Coniacian to Coniacian (89.8 - 83.6 Ma)

• formation assignments are equivalents

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; mudstone

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: sieve,

Primary reference: J. G. Eaton, S. Diem, J. D. Archibald, C. Schierup, and H. Munk. 1999. Vertebrate paleontology of the Upper Cretaceous rocks of the Markagunt Plateau, southwestern Utah. In D. D. Gillette (ed.), Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah, Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 99-1:323-333 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 14417: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002, edited by Matthew Carrano and Patricia Holroyd

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• formation unnamed
Gnathostomata
  -
Actinopteri
 Acanthomorphata -
"Acanthomorpha indet." = Acanthomorphata2
"Acanthomorpha indet." = Acanthomorphata2 Rosen 1973
MNA V10358
Amphibia
 Caudata - Urodela
Urodela indet.5 salamander
Scapherpetontidae indet.5 Auffenberg and Goin 1959 salamander
Mammalia
 Theriamorpha -
Eutheria indet.3 eutherian
UMNH 14119
Metatheria indet.1 Huxley 1880 metatherian
 Allotheria -
Multituberculata indet.4 Cope 1884 multituberculate
DUPLICATE REF 1413 or 1414 or 1415
 Multituberculata -
Cedaromys sp.3 Eaton and Cifelli 2001 multituberculate
UMNH 5180
Reptilia
 Squamata -
Squamata indet. squamates
 Testudines -
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle
 Dinosauria -
 Loricata -
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian
Chondrichthyes
 Batoidea -
 Orectolobiformes - Ginglymostomatidae
Cantioscyllium markaguntensis n. sp.6 nurse shark
UMNH VP 18904–9
 Hybodontiformes - Lonchidiidae
Lonchidion sp.6 Estes 1964 elasmobranch
 Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch