Also known as GS-ENM
Where: Kane County, Utah (37.2° N, 111.6° W: paleocoordinates 45.2° N, 82.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Reynolds Point Member (Wahweap Formation), Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• low in formation - uppermost sandstone of the "lower sandstone member", ca. 50 m above base of Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: channel lag; lithified, medium-grained, intraclastic sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by J. A. Smith in 1998–2001, 2009
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: A. L. Titus, J. D. Powell, E. M. Roberts, S. D. Sampson, S. L. Pollock, J. I. Kirkland, and L. B. Albright. 2005. Late Cretaceous stratigraphy, depositional environments, and macrovertebrate paleontology of the Kaiparowits Plateau, Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, Utah. In J. Pederson & C. M. Dehler (ed.), Interior Western United States. Geological Society of America Field Guide 6:101-128 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 84301: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.10.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle | |
cf. Diabloceratops sp. Kirkland and Deblieux 2010 ceratopsid |