BUNM 77-25: Late/Upper Campanian, New Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca
- Decapoda
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? Xanthoidea indet.
MacLeay 1838
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Gymnolaemata
- Cheilostomata
- Electridae
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? Conopeum sp.
Gray 1848
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Pholadidae
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Teredina sp.
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Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Hadrosauridae indet.
Cope 1869
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42 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
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? Thescelosaurus sp.
Gilmore 1913
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Dromaeosauridae
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Dromaeosauridae indet.
Colbert and Russell 1969
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Crocodylia
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Leidyosuchus sp.
Lambe 1907
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3 specimens | |||||||||
= Crocodylia indet.
Owen 1842
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Alroy 2007 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Crocodilia
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Crocodilia indet.
Owen 1842
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56 specimens | |||||||||
spelled with current rank as Crocodylia | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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? Brachychampsa sp.
Gilmore 1911
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34 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Baenidae
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Neurankylus eximius
Lambe 1902
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= Neurankylus baueri
Gilmore 1916
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Sullivan et al. 2012 | |||||||||
Baena nodosa
Gilmore 1916
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recombined as Denazinemys nodosa | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Adocidae
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Adocus sp.
Cope 1868
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionychidae indet.
Gray 1825
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Reptilia
- Chamopsiidae
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Leptochamops denticulatus
(Gilmore 1928)
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171 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
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Mammalia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
- Lepisosteidae
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Lepisosteus sp.
Agassiz 1843
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71 elements | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Amiiformes
- Amiidae
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Amia sp.
Linnaeus 1766
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7 elements | |||||||||
Amia cf. uintaensis
(Leidy 1873)
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401 elements | |||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Amiinae | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Elopiformes
- Phyllodontidae
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Paralbula cf. casei
Estes 1969
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171 elements | |||||||||
cf. Pseudoegertonia sp.
Dartevelle and Casier 1949
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67 elements | |||||||||
originally entered as "cf. Pseudoegertonia indet." | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Hybodontidae
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Hybodus sp.
Agassiz 1834
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4 elements | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Lonchidiidae
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Lonchidion selachos
Estes 1964
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7 elements | |||||||||
? Lonchidion selachos
Estes 1964
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10 elements | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Rajiformes
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Squatirhina sp.
Casier 1947
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7 elements | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Rajiformes
- Ptychotrygonidae
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Ptychotrygon aff. triangularis
(Reuss 1845)
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1 element | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Rajiformes
- Rhinobatidae
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Myledaphus bipartitus
Cope 1876
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74 elements | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | New Mexico | County: | San Juan |
Coordinates: | 36.3° North, 108.3° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 43.6° North, 79.6° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Altitude: | 1757 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: | 83.50000 - 70.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Fruitland |
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | coal |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: The locality is about 30m above the base of the Fruitland and approximately 30-40 m below the persistent sandstone body at the top of the Fruitland. | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Spatial orientation: | random |
Articulated whole bodies: | none |
Associated major elements: | none |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | all macrofossils |
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (float),mechanical,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:Reptilian egg-shell fragments found |
Metadata
Database number: | 52052 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano, J. Alroy, D. Nicholson | Enterer: | K. Maguire, D. Nicholson, J. Alroy |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-07-15 12:11:56 | Last modified: | 2007-12-03 11:10:26 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-07-15 12:11:56 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
13834. | ETE | P. J. Hutchinson and B. S. Kues. 1985. Depositional environments and paleontology of Lewis Shale to lower Kirtland Shale sequence (Upper Cretaceous), Bisti area, northwestern New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Circular 195:24-54 [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] | |
50161 | R. M. Sullivan, S. E. Jasinski, and S. G. Lucas. 2012. Re-assessment of Late Campanian (Kirtlandian) turtles from the Upper Cretaceous Fruitland and Kirtland formations, San Juan Basin, New Mexico, USA. In D. B. Brinkman, P. A. Holroyd, J. D. Gardner (eds.), Morphology and Evolution of Turtles 337-387 [D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson/P. Holroyd] |