UMNH VP Loc. 597: Late/Upper Campanian, Utah
collected 2004

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Tyrannosauridae
Tyrannosauridae indet. Osborn 1906
2 specimens
UMNH VP 16690, UMNH VP 16691
    = Teratophoneus curriei Carr et al. 2011
Loewen et al. 2013
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Utah
Coordinates: 37.5° North, 111.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.5° North, 82.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Late/Upper Campanian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
Age estimate:76.46 ± 0.14 to 75.51 ± 0.15 Ma (Ar/Ar)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kaiparowits Member:Middle
Stratigraphy comments: lower part of middle unit
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection dates:2004
Metadata
Also known as:Horse Mountain
Database number:155992
Authorizer:G. Lloyd, M. Carrano Enterer:G. Lloyd, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2014-05-06 10:15:56 Last modified:2023-11-21 09:35:33
Access level:the public Released:2014-05-06 10:15:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

86539. L. E. Zanno, J. P. Wiersma, M. A. Loewen and S. D. Sampson. 2010. A preliminary report on the theropod dinosaur fauna of the Late Campanian Kaiparowits Formation, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah. Learning from the Land: Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Science Symposium Proceedings, 2006 173-186 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

51074 M. A. Loewen, R. B. Irmis, J. J. W. Sertich, P. J. Currie, and S. D. Sampson. 2013. Tyrant dinosaur evolution tracks the rise and fall of Late Cretaceous oceans. PLoS ONE 8(11):e79420 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd]
85397 L. E. Zanno, M. A. Loewen, A. A. Farke, G.-S. Kim, L. P. A. M. Claessens and C. T. McGarrity. 2013. Late Cretaceous theropod dinosaurs from southern Utah. In A. L. Titus & M. A. Loewen (ed.), At the Top of the Grand Staircase: The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah 504-525 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]