PBDB Collection

El Pilar Tank, Adobe Canyon: Late/Upper Campanian, Arizona
collected by H. Miller, R. McCord, A. Heckert 1964-2003

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Reptilia - Hadrosauridae

	Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885	McCord 1997	1 specimen
	UALP 4005 (caudal vertebra)
	= Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869	D'Emic et al. 2010
	UALP 4005 - reinterpreted as a cervical vertebra

	Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869	Miller 1963
Reptilia - Tyrannosauridae

	Gorgosaurus sp. Lambe 1914
	= Carnosauria indet. Huene 1920	Erwin and Stockey 1991
	= Tyrannosauridae indet. Osborn 1906	McCord 1997
Reptilia - Alligatoridae

	Alligatoridae indet. Gray 1844	McCord et al. 2001	4 specimens
	UALP 1902, 1904; ASDM 974, tooth
Reptilia - Testudines

	Plastomenus sp. Cope 1873	McCord et al. 2001	2 specimens
	UALP 1909, 1915
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae

	Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809	McCord 1997	1 specimen
	"s.l."; UALP 1921
	= Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825	McCord et al. 2001

	Testudinata indet. (Oppel 1811)
	= Aspideretes sp. Hay 1904	Miller 1963
	= Trionychinae indet. Gray 1825	Alroy 2007
Reptilia - Testudines - Adocidae

	Adocus sp. Cope 1868	McCord et al. 2001	4 specimens
	UALP 1903, 1919, 1921, 3646
Actinopteri - Elopiformes - Elopidae

	Elopidae indet. Bonaparte 1846	Miller 1963
Actinopteri - Crossognathiformes - Pachyrhizodontidae

	cf. Pachyrhizodus sp. Agassiz 1850	McCord et al. 2001	1 specimen
	UALP 1908
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Palaeolabridae

	Palaeolabrus montenensis	McCord et al. 2001	1 specimen
	UALP 1923
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Amiidae

	Amioidea indet. Bonaparte 1838	Miller 1963	1 specimen
	UALP 43
	= Amiidae indet. Huxley 1861	McCord 1997

	Melvius sp. Bryant 1987	McCord et al. 2001	1 specimen
	UALP 16
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae

	Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825	Miller 1963	5 specimens
	UALP 1922, 1930, 1913, 1917, 1912
	= Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843	McCord 1997
	"s.l."
	= Lepisosteus occidentalis Leidy 1856	McCord et al. 2001
	original and current combination Lepidotus occidentalis
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes

	cf. Lepidotus sp. (Agassiz 1832)	Miller 1963
	original and current combination Lepidotes
Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae

	Pycnodontidae indet. (Agassiz 1833)	McCord 1997
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Physidae

	Physa sp. Draparnaud 1801	Miller 1963
	= Physa cf. reesidei	Miller 1964
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Planorbidae

	Gyraulus sp. Charpentier 1837	Miller and Schwab 1966
Gastropoda - Viviparidae

	Viviparus sp. Montfort 1810	Miller 1963
Bivalvia - Unionida - Unionidae

	Unio sp. Philipsson 1788	Miller 1963
Bivalvia - Unionida

	Protelliptio sp. Russell 1934	Miller 1963
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cyprididae

	Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802	Miller 1963
	= Cypridopsis sp. Brady 1868	Miller and Schwab 1966
Insecta

	Insecta indet. Linnaeus 1758	Miller and Schwab 1966	1 specimen
	claw, UALP 53
Insecta - Diptera - Culicidae

	Culicidae indet. Meigen 1818	Miller and Schwab 1966
Charales - Characeae

	Aclistochara sp. Peck 1937	Miller 1963
	= Aclistochara cf. bransoni Peck 1937	Miller and Schwab 1966
	UALP 51
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	Arizona	County:	Santa Cruz
Coordinates:	31.7° North, 110.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	39.6° North, 83.9° West
Basis of coordinate:	based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:	local area

Time

Period:	Cretaceous	Epoch:	Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:	Campanian	10 m.y. bin:	Cretaceous 7
*Period:	Late/Upper Cretaceous	*Epoch:	Senonian
Key time interval:	Late/Upper Campanian
Age range of interval:	83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Fort Crittenden
Stratigraphic resolution:	member
Stratigraphy comments: age possibly Santonian but probably Campanian - assigned to late Campanian by Heckert et al. 2003; "shale member" of formation, erroneously attributed to "Upper Transitional Unit" (which = Turney Ranch Fm.) according to Lucas & Heckert 2005

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	not reported
Environment:	fluvial indet.
Geology comments: "fluvial sediment deposited by a meandering stream system"

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils
Disassociated major elements:	some

Collection methods and comments

Collection methods:	field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis
Collectors:	H. Miller, R. McCord, A. Heckert	Collection dates:	1964-2003
Taxonomic list comments:partially revised from Miller 1964 JP and Miller and Schwab 1966

Metadata

Also known as:	El Pilar locality 56, UALP 56
Database number:	24915
Authorizer:	J. Alroy, P. Mannion, M. Carrano	Enterer:	J. Alroy, P. Mannion, M. Carrano
Modifier:	M. Carrano	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2002-08-22 13:32:36	Last modified:	2019-11-18 15:19:10
Access level:	the public	Released:	2002-08-22 13:32:36
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

61343.

R. Moore and H. W. Miller. 1960. A dinosaur-bearing section of Cretaceous rocks in the Empire Mountains, Pima County, Arizona. Arizona Geological Society Digest 3:57-61 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

18120		J. Alroy. 2006. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
19636		J. Alroy. 2007. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates and so forth. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
37768		M. D. D'Emic, J. A. Wilson, and R. Thompson. 2010. The end of the sauropod dinosaur hiatus in North America. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 297:486-490 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
8698		D. M. Erwin and R. A. Stockey. 1991. Soleredera rhizomorpha gen. et sp. nov., a permineralized monocotyledon from the Middle Eocene Princeton Chert of British Columbia, Canada. Botanical Gazette 152(2):231-247 [H. Wang/M. Arakaki/M. Arakaki]
19634	ETE	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]
28721	ETE	S. G. Lucas and A. B. Heckert. 2005. Distribution, age and correlation of Cretaceous fossil vertebrates from Arizona. In A. B. Heckert & S. G. Lucas (eds.), Vertebrate Paleontology in Arizona. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 29:105-110 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
6989		R. D. McCord. 1997. An Arizona titanosaurid sauropod and revision of the Late Cretaceous Adobe Canyon fauna. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17(3):620-622 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
70977		R. D. McCord, G. McCullough, B. J. Tegowski, J.-P. Hodnett, and R. Scarborough. 2001. Ongoing research in the Late Cretaceous Fort Crittenden Formation, southeastern Arizona: the non-dinosaurian vertebrate fauna. In R. D. McCord & D. Boaz (ed.), Southwest Paleontological Symposium – Proceedings 2001. Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin 8:65-71 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
62803		H. W. Miller. 1963. New faunal elements from the Cretaceous Arizona. Journal of the Arizona Academy of Science 2(4):191 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
62804		H. W. Miller and K. W. Schwab. 1966. Microfossils from the Upper Cretaceous of Adobe Canyon, southern Arizona. Arizona Geological Society Digest 8:65-95 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
8694		H. W. Miller, Jr. 1964. Cretaceous dinosaurian remains from southern Arizona. Journal of Paleontology 38(2):378-384 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]