NMMNH L-4479, Adobe Canyon: Late/Upper Campanian, Arizona
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Mesolanites sp.
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Actinopteri
- Amiiformes
- Amiidae
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Melvius sp.
Bryant 1987
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1 element | ||||||
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Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
- Lepisosteidae
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Lepisosteidae indet.
Cuvier 1825
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6 elements | ||||||
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Actinopteri
- Pycnodontiformes
- Pycnodontidae
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Pycnodontidae indet.
(Agassiz 1833)
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3 elements | ||||||
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Reptilia
- Tyrannosauridae
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Tyrannosauridae indet.
Osborn 1906
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5 specimens | ||||||
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Reptilia
- Crocodylia
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Crocodylia indet.
(Owen 1842)
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2 specimens | ||||||
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Reptilia
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Alligatoroidea indet.
Gray 1844
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Adocidae
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Adocus sp.
Cope 1868
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4 specimens | ||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionychidae indet.
Gray 1825
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4 specimens | ||||||
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Gastropoda
- Viviparidae
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Viviparus sp.
Montfort 1810
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Bivalvia
- Unionida
- Unionidae
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Plesielliptio sp.
(Russell 1934)
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| original and current combination Elliptio (Plesielliptio) | |||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Arizona | County: | Santa Cruz |
| Coordinates: | 31.7° North, 110.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.7° North, 84.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| 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: | Fort Crittenden | Member: | "shale" |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | mudstone |
| Secondary lithology: | siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "fine-grained strata, principally mudrocks and silty mudrocks, are interbedded, repetitively, with subordinate amounts of siltstone and mudstone." | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | NMMNH |
Metadata
| Database number: | 68255 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-01-11 13:27:46 | Last modified: | 2007-01-11 15:27:46 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-01-11 13:27:36 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 19634. | ETE | A. B. Heckert, S. G. Lucas, and S. E. Krzyzanowski. 2003. Vertebrate fauna of the late Campanian (Judithian) Fort Crittenden Formation, and the age of Cretaceous vertebrate faunas of southeastern Arizona (U.S.A.). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 227(3):343-364 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |