NMMNH L-4224 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as JH-3

Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.3° N, 108.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 85.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Naashoibito Member (Ojo Alamo Formation), Lancian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• originally assigned to De-na-zin Member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coarse-grained, concretionary, ferruginous, cherty/siliceous sandstone

• contains ferruginous cannonball concretions, coarse sandstone on bones, contains red chert

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Hunley in 1984; reposited in the NMMNH

Collection methods: bulk,

• found by UNM student Jess Hunley, summer 1984 (= site JH-3)

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 47817: authorized by Jason Head, entered by Jason Head on 02.03.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Saltasauridae
Alamosaurus sanjuanensis Gilmore 1922 saltasaurine
NMMNH P-29722, 29723