Cortez Mountains (PROXY) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Eureka County, Nevada (40.3° N, 116.3° W: paleocoordinates 42.0° N, 67.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Newark Canyon Formation, Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Bonde in 2008

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: J. W. Bonde, R. P. Hilton, F. D. Jackson and P. A. Druschke. 2015. Fauna of the Newark Canyon Formation (Lower Cretaceous), east-central Nevada. In W. M. Pennell & L. J. Garside (ed.), New Concepts and Discoveries. 2015 Geological Society of Nevada Symposium 2:721-732 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 181589: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.09.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Euornithopoda indet. Sereno 1986 ornithopod
dentary with teeth