Where: Utah (37.1° N, 111.7° W: paleocoordinates 40.6° N, 77.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Mammites nodosoides ammonoid zone, Tropic Shale Formation, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• late early Turonian, ca. 4.5 m below the Lowest Stratigraphic Datum of the Mammites nodosoides ammonite zone and 65 m above base of formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by MNA in 2000–2001
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: D. D. Gillette, L. B. Albright, A. L. Titus and M. Graffam. 2001. Discovery and paleogeographic implications of a therizinosaurid dinosaur from the Turonian (Late Cretaceous) of southern Utah. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(3, suppl.):54A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 67973: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.12.2006, edited by Hallie Street
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Mammites nodosoides Schlüter 1871 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Reptilia | |
Nothronychus graffami n. sp.3
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Eopolycotylus rankini n. gen. n. sp.1
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Actinopteri | |
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