Big Water, Tropic Shale: Early/Lower Turonian, Utah
collected by MNA 2000–2001

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Ichthyodectiformes - Saurodontidae
Gillicus arcuatus (Cope 1875)
Albright et al. 2013 1 individual
MNA V10081
Reptilia - Therizinosauridae
Therizinosauridae indet. Maleev 1954
1 individual
UMNH VP 16420 (15 measurements)
    = Nothronychus graffami n. sp. Zanno et al. 2009
Zanno et al. 2009
Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Polycotylidae
Eopolycotylus rankini n. gen., n. sp. Albright et al. 2007
Albright et al. 2007 1 individual
MNA V9445
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Mammites nodosoides (Schlüter 1871)
Bivalvia
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Utah
Coordinates: 37.1° North, 111.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.6° North, 77.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Turonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Turonian Ammonoid zone: Mammites nodosoides
Age range of interval:93.90000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tropic Shale
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: late early Turonian, ca. 4.5 m below the Lowest Stratigraphic Datum of the Mammites nodosoides ammonite zone and 65 m above base of formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Articulated whole bodies:some
Associated major elements:many
Fragmentation:occasional
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:allochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:MNA Collection dates:2000–2001
Metadata
Database number:67973
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano, H. Street
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-12-19 14:00:24 Last modified:2023-07-26 09:02:17
Access level:the public Released:2006-12-19 14:00:24
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
30326.ETE D. D. Gillette, L. B. Albright, A. L. Titus and M. Graffam. 2001. Discovery and paleogeographic implications of a therizinosaurid dinosaur from the Turonian (Late Cretaceous) of southern Utah. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(3, suppl.):54A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

33380 L. B. Albright, D. D. Gillette, and A. L. Titus. 2007. Plesiosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) Tropic Shale of southern Utah, part 1: new records of the pliosaur Brachauchenius lucasi. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(1):31-40 [M. Carrano/H. Street]
33381 L. B. Albright, D. D. Gillette, and A. L. Titus. 2007. Plesiosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) Tropic Shale of southern Utah, part 2: Polycotylidae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(1):41-58 [M. Carrano/H. Street]
85420 L. B. Albright, D. D. Gillette, and A. L. Titus. 2013. Fossil vertebrates from the Tropic Shale (Upper Cretaceous), southern Utah. In A. L. Titus & M. A. Loewen (ed.), At the Top of the Grand Staircase: The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah 536-562 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
19431ETE J. I. Kirkland, D. K. Smith, and D. G. Wolfe. 2005. Holotype braincase of Nothronychus mckinleyi Kirkland and Wolfe 2001 (Theropoda; Therizinosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) of west-central New Mexico. In K. Carpenter (ed.), The Carnivorous Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 87-96 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
35018ETE V. L. Santucci and J. I. Kirkland. 2010. An Overview of National Park Service Paleontological Resources from the Parks and Monuments in Utah. In D. A. Sprinkel, T. C. Chidsey, P. B. Anderson (eds.), Utah Geological Association Publication 28 (third edition) 28:589-623 [M. Carrano/M. Oreska/M. Oreska]
80958 L. E. Zanno. 2010. A taxonomic and phylogenetic re-evaluation of Therizinosauria (Dinosauria: Maniraptora). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 8(4):503-543 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
30325ETE L. E. Zanno, D. D. Gillette, L. B. Albright and A. L. Titus. 2009. A new North American therizinosaurid and the role of herbivory in 'predatory' dinosaur evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]