RAM V200810, GS-ENM (PROXY) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

Where: Garfield County, Utah (37.7° N, 111.7° W: paleocoordinates 45.7° N, 82.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Kaiparowits Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Upper portion of the middle unit of the Kaiparowits Formation, ca. 150 m above type locality for Gryposaurus monumentensis.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coarse channel fill; massive sandstone

• "a thick, cross-bedded channel sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D. Lofgren in 2007–2008

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: T. A. Gates, E. K. Lund, D. B. DeBlieux, A. L. Titus, D. C. Evans, M. A. Getty, J. I. Kirkland and J. G. Eaton. 2013. Ornithopod dinosaurs from the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument region, Utah, and their role in paleobiogeographic and macroevolutionary studies. In A. L. Titus & M. A. Loewen (ed.), At the Top of the Grand Staircase: The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah 463-481 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 172613: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.08.2015, edited by Richard Butler

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Gryposaurus sp. Lambe 1914 hadrosaurine
RAM 12065, partial skull
 Pterosauria -
Pterosauria indet. Kaup 1834 pterosaur
RAM 15445, tentatively identified as manual phalanx IV-4