Mirror Mesa (MSM Loc. 98-67): Middle Turonian, New Mexico
collected 1998
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Hadrosauridae indet.
Cope 1869
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Reptilia
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? Dromaeosauridae indet.
Colbert and Russell 1969
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2 individuals | |||||||||
| MSM P4754, P6178 | ||||||||||
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= Tetanurae indet.
Gauthier 1986
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Denton et al. 2004 | |||||||||
| new taxon | ||||||||||
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= Suskityrannus hazelae n. gen., n. sp.
Nesbitt et al. 2019
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Nesbitt et al. 2019 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Crocodylidae
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Crocodylidae indet.
Cuvier 1807
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Cheloniidae
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Cheloniidae indet.
Bonaparte 1832
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Actinopteri
- Amiiformes
- Amiidae
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Amiidae indet.
Huxley 1861
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Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
- Lepisosteidae
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Lepisosteidae indet.
Cuvier 1825
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New Mexico | County: | Catron |
| Coordinates: | 35.1° North, 108.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.0° North, 75.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Turonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
| Key time interval: | Middle Turonian | Ammonoid zone: | Collignoniceras woollgari |
| Age range of interval: | 93.90000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Moreno Hill | Member: | Lower | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Probably Collignoniceras woollgari Zone, early middle Turonian | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | concretionary not reported |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "silcrete/concretion interval" "In the vicinity of the dinosaur locality, the lower Moreno Hill consists primarily of carbonaceous shales, channel sandstones and crevasse splays grading laterally into mudstones and siltstones, all of which were probably deposited on a broad, low relief coastal plain." | |
| Environment: | delta plain |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | Collection dates: | 1998 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 52360 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-08-04 11:15:37 | Last modified: | 2019-09-23 16:51:24 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-08-04 11:15:37 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 13881. | ETE | D. G. Wolfe and J. I. Kirkland. 1998. Zuniceratops christopheri n. gen. & n. sp., a ceratopsian dinosaur from the Moreno Hill Formation (Cretaceous, Turonian) of west-central New Mexico. S. G. Lucas, J. I. Kirkland, and J. W. Estep (eds.), Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 14:307-317 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 16827 | ETE | R. Denton, S. Nesbitt, D. Wolfe and T. R. Holtz, Jr. 2004. A new small theropod dinosaur from the Moreno Hill Formation (Turonian, Upper Cretaceous) of New Mexico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(3, suppl.):52A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 70289 | S. J. Nesbitt, R. K. Denton, M. A. Loewen, S. L. Brusatte, N. D. Smith, A. H. Turner, J. I. Kirkland, A. T. McDonald, and D. G. Wolfe. 2019. A mid-Cretaceous tyrannosauroid and the origin of North American end-Cretaceous dinosaur assemblages. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3(6):892-899 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |