Split Lip Flat, Barrel Springs: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, New Mexico
collected by Sinclair & Granger 1913
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Dinosauria
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Dinosauria indet.
Owen 1842
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| AMNH 5796 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New Mexico | County: | San Juan |
| Coordinates: | 36.3° North, 108.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.6° North, 85.6° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Altitude: | 1948 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Ojo Alamo | Member: | Naashoibito | ||
| Local section: | Barrl | Local bed: | 1 | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "Ojo Alamo" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | poor |
| Disassociated major elements: | all |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | AMNH | ||
| Collectors: | Sinclair & Granger | Collection dates: | 1913 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 47017 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-01-31 06:40:26 | Last modified: | 2021-02-17 13:15:45 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-01-31 06:40:26 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 12494. | ETE | J. E. Fassett, S. G. Lucas, and F. M. O'Neill. 1987. Dinosaurs, pollen and spores, and the age of the Ojo Alamo Sandstone, 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 209:17-345 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |