Where: Bernalillo County, New Mexico (35.2° N, 107.1° W: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 75.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Gibson Coal Member (Crevasse Canyon Formation), Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Reposited in the UNM
Primary reference: S. G. Lucas, A. P. Hunt, and R. Pence. 1988. Some Late Cretaceous reptiles from New Mexico. In D. L. Wolberg (ed.), Contributions to Late Cretaceous paleontology and stratigraphy of New Mexico. Part III. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Bulletin 122:49-60 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 52831: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.08.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Lamna sp. Cuvier 1816 mackerel shark | |
Squalicorax sp. Whitley 1939 crow shark | |
Scapanorhynchus sp. Woodward 1889 goblin shark | |
Reptilia | |
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle | |
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia Owen 1842 crocodilian | |
Dinosauria indet. dinosaur |