UNM 77-187: Late/Upper Campanian, New Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Ornithomimidae
Ornithomimidae indet. Marsh 1890
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Mexico County:San Juan
Coordinates: 36.2° North, 108.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.5° North, 79.6° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:1858 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
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
Stratigraphy
Formation:Fruitland
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Disassociated minor elements:all
Fragmentation:frequent
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:UNM
Metadata
Database number:46990
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-01-28 14:34:35 Last modified:2012-03-06 09:41:22
Access level:the public Released:2005-01-28 14:34:35
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

12486.ETE S. G. Lucas, N. J. Mateer, A. P. Hunt and F. M. O'Neill. 1987. Dinosaurs, the age of the Fruitland and Kirtland Formations, and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the San Juan Basin, New Mexico. J. E. Fassett and J. K. Rigby, Jr. (eds.), The Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the San Juan and Raton Basins, New Mexico and Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 209:35-50 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]