Gates Pass (UALP locality 17720) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Tucson Mountains dinosaur

Where: Pima County, Arizona (32.2° N, 111.1° W: paleocoordinates 40.2° N, 83.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Amole Arkose Formation, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• "most likely Campanian" but could even be Early Cretaceous; reinterpreted as from top of Amole Arkose (lower parts correlative with Lower Cretaceous Bisbee Group)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

• "from a megablock of intracaldera deposits"
• sandstone (arkose) matrix from megabreccia in Tucson Mtns caldera wall

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. McCord & B. Tegowski

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: A. B. Heckert, S. G. Lucas, and S. E. Krzyzanowski. 2003. Vertebrate fauna of the late Campanian (Judithian) Fort Crittenden Formation, and the age of Cretaceous vertebrate faunas of southeastern Arizona (U.S.A.). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 227(3):343-364 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 68253: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.01.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
"the Tucson Mountains dinosaur"