East Branch, Adobe Canyon: Late/Upper Campanian, Arizona
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Aspideretes sp.
Hay 1904
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= Trionychinae indet.
Gray 1825
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Alroy 2007 | ||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Plastomenus sp.
Cope 1873
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Reptilia
- Avetheropoda
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Carnosauria indet.
Huene 1920
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
- Lepisosteidae
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Lepisosteus sp.
Agassiz 1843
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Actinopteri
- Elopiformes
- Elopidae
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Elopidae indet.
Bonaparte 1846
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Bivalvia
- Unionida
- Unionidae
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Unio sp.
Philipsson 1788
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Bivalvia
- Unionida
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? Protelliptio sp.
Russell 1934
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Cuvier 1795
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Physidae
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Physa cf. reesidei
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Gastropoda
- Viviparidae
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? Viviparus sp.
Montfort 1810
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Arizona | County: | Santa Cruz |
| Coordinates: | 31.7° North, 110.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.7° North, 83.9° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| *Period: | Late/Upper Cretaceous - Late/Upper Cretaceous | *Epoch: | Senonian - Senonian |
| *International age/stage: | Early/Lower Santonian - Late/Upper Maastrichtian | ||
| 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: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "overlying suite of rocks" in section | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "shales, siltstones and sandstones" | |
| Environment: | paralic indet. |
| Geology comments: "equivalent to brackish water facies" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Articulated whole bodies: | none |
| Associated major elements: | none |
| Disassociated major elements: | none |
| Disassociated minor elements: | all |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera,species names |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 32301 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, J. Alroy | Enterer: | M. Carrano, J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | marine invertebrate,vertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-06-19 13:34:45 | Last modified: | 2010-11-08 12:35:40 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-06-19 13:34:45 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 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] |
Secondary references:
| 19636 | J. Alroy. 2007. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates and so forth. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 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] |