Bisti, Alamo Mesa (UA) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as ceratopsian

Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.3° N, 108.1° W: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 76.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• Kirtland Shale or Fruitland Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Lindsay in the 1970s

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: P. J. Hutchinson and B. S. Kues. 1985. Depositional environments and paleontology of Lewis Shale to lower Kirtland Shale sequence (Upper Cretaceous), Bisti area, northwestern New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Circular 195:24-54 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 51910: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.06.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Ceratopsia indet. ceratopsian
skull