Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.3° N, 108.2° W: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 85.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Provenance uncertain: originally reported as from the De-na-zin Member of the Kirtland Formation (Lucas and Sullivan), but probably an error (Williamson and Weil 2008)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the NMMNH
Collection methods: surface (float),
• ref 29942 suggest specimen actually comes from NMMNH L-4224
Primary reference: S. G. Lucas and R. M. Sullivan. 2000. The sauropod dinosaur Alamosaurus from the Upper Cretaceous of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 17:147-156 [J. Head/J. Head/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 47815: authorized by Jason Head, entered by Jason Head on 02.03.2005
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