Where: Santa Cruz County, Arizona (31.7° N, 110.8° W: paleocoordinates 39.7° N, 84.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: "shale" Member (Fort Crittenden Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone and siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Reposited in the NMMNH
Collection methods: quarrying,
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 68256: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.01.2007, edited by Graeme Lloyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Reptilia | |
Crittendenceratops krzyzanowskii n. gen. n. sp., Crittendenceratops krzyzanowskii n. gen. n. sp.
Crittendenceratops krzyzanowskii n. gen. n. sp. Dalman et al. 2018 ceratopsid ASDM 380, ASDM 884, ADSM 1133, ADSM 1138, ASDM 1935, SDM 1975, ASDM 1981
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Bivalvia | |
"Plesielliptio sp." = Elliptio (Plesielliptio)
"Plesielliptio sp." = Elliptio (Plesielliptio) Russell 1934 freshwater mussel |