Talos type locality, The Blues: Late/Upper Campanian, Utah
collected 2008
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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Zanno et al. 2011 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
| compactituberculate eggshell | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Troodontidae
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Troodontidae indet.
Gilmore 1924
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| UMNH VP 19479 (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
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= Talos sampsoni n. gen., n. sp.
Zanno et al. 2011
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Zanno et al. 2011 | |||||||||
| UMNH VP 19479 | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Zanno et al. 2011 | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Cuvier 1795
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Zanno et al. 2011 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Utah | County: | Garfield |
| Coordinates: | 37.6° North, 111.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 45.7° North, 83.0° 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 | ||
| Age estimate: | maximum 75.95 ± 0.18 Ma (Ar/Ar) |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Kaiparowits | Member: | Middle | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: middle portion of the “middle unit” | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | fine,gray,green silty sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "a light greenish gray siltstone/fine sandstone unit" | |
| Environment: | crevasse splay |
| Geology comments: "overbank or possibly crevasse splay" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | 2008 |
| Taxonomic list comments:Other fossils found at locality include bivalves, gastropods and dinosaur eggshell. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, GS-ENM | ||
| Database number: | 131870 | ||
| Authorizer: | G. Lloyd, M. Carrano | Enterer: | G. Lloyd, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-07-31 23:12:17 | Last modified: | 2023-07-25 12:57:19 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-07-31 23:12:17 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 82917. | E. M. Roberts, A. L. Titus, and J. G. Eaton. 2009. Late Cretaceous Depositional Systems and Paleontology of the Southern Sevier Foreland Basin, South Central Utah. Advances in Western Interior Cretaceous Geology and Paleontology Field Trip Guide, May 24th 2009. 1-22 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 61882 | A. L. Titus, J. G. Eaton, and J. J. W. Sertich. 2016. Late Cretaceous stratigraphy and vertebrate faunas of the Markagunt, Paunsaugunt, and Kaiparowits plateaus, southern Utah. Geology of the Intermountain West 3:229-291 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 85397 | L. E. Zanno, M. A. Loewen, A. A. Farke, G.-S. Kim, L. P. A. M. Claessens and C. T. McGarrity. 2013. Late Cretaceous theropod dinosaurs from southern Utah. In A. L. Titus & M. A. Loewen (ed.), At the Top of the Grand Staircase: The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah 504-525 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 42510 | L. E. Zanno, D. J. Varricchio, P. M. O'Connor, A. L. Titus, and M. J. Knell. 2011. A new troodontid theropod, Talos sampsoni gen. et sp. nov., from the Upper Cretaceous Western Interior Basin of North America. PLoS ONE 6(9):e24487:1-20 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd/M. Carrano] |