TKM007, Elephant Butte (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Sierra County, New Mexico (33.2° N, 107.2° W: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 81.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: McRae Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• Found at the boundary of the Hall Lake Member and Jose Creek Member

•Amato et al. 2017 dated Jose Creek member and lower Hall Lake member of the McRae Formation to Late Campanian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• "Fossil bones are often associated with conglomerate or shaly beds"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1981

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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 55289: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 05.10.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Saltasauridae
Alamosaurus sp. Gilmore 1922 saltasaurine
TKM007