Where: Sierra County County, New Mexico (33.1° N, 107.3° W: paleocoordinates 40.3° N, 79.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Jose Creek Member (McRae Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Ash fall tuffs and clasts in the Jose Creek member of the McRae Formation were dated to approximately 75Ma by Amato et al. 2017.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: R. P. Lozinsky, A. P. Hunt, D. L. Wolberg and S. G. Lucas. 1984. Late Cretaceous (Lancian) dinosaurs from the McRae Formation, Sierra County, New Mexico. New Mexico Geology 6(4):72-77 [B. Tiffney/J. Jacobson/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24180: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by James Jacobson on 01.08.2002

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