UNM 77-421: Late/Upper Campanian, New Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Theropoda
- Ornithomimidae
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cf. Struthiomimus altus
(Lambe 1902)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| UNM B-499B | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New Mexico | County: | San Juan |
| Coordinates: | 36.3° North, 108.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.6° North, 79.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Altitude: | 1827 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: | Kirtland | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "lower shale" of formation | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Disassociated major elements: | all |
| Fragmentation: | none |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UNM |
Metadata
| Database number: | 47013 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-01-31 06:14:11 | Last modified: | 2012-03-06 09:32:18 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-01-31 06:14:11 |
| 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] |