Cedar Canyon, AMNH Loc. 6753 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as AMNH Sinclair Expedition

Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (41.9° N, 109.1° W: paleocoordinates 49.1° N, 78.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Almond Formation (Mesaverde Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• located 46-61m above Erickson Sandstone - lower half of formation; therefore between Baculties reesidei and B. eliasi zones, ca. 72.46 Ma

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace, soft parts

Collected by E. Schlaikjer in 1937; reposited in the AMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: B. Brown. 1938. The mystery dinosaur. Natural History 38(3):190-202 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 45860: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 10.12.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
  -
Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Saurolophus sp. Brown 1912 hadrosaurine
AMNH 3651