Nipple Butte (UGS Loc. 42Ka586V) (Cretaceous of the United States)

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

• "medium-grained, slabby, cross-bedded sandstone with abundant clay clasts and bone fragments"

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

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Taxonomic list

• includes "a variety of isolated teeth" in addition to taxa listed
Reptilia
 Testudines -
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
cf. Diabloceratops sp. Kirkland and Deblieux 2010 ceratopsid