Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.2° N, 107.8° W: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 85.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Naashoibito Member (Ojo Alamo Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lenticular, gray, yellow, sandy mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the NMMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: S. G. Lucas and R. M. Sullivan. 2000. Stratigraphy and vertebrate biostratigraphy across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, Betonnie Tsosie Wash, San Juan Basin, New Mexico. In S. G. Lucas and A. B. Heckert (eds.), Dinosaurs of New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 17:95-104 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/D. Nicholson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 54103: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 22.09.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Alamosaurus sanjuanensis Gilmore 1922 saltasaurine |