Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.3° N, 108.0° W: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 85.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Naashoibito Member (Ojo Alamo Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• 3-8 ft above base of Ojo Alamo Sandstone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; concretionary, brown, white, conglomeratic sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by Reeside in 1916; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1919. Reptilian faunas of the Torrejon, Puerco, and underlying Upper Cretaceous formations of San Juan County, New Mexico. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 119:1-68 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 62545: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.07.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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