Chandler locality (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Fremont County, Colorado (38.4° N, 105.2° W: paleocoordinates 45.1° N, 77.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mesaverde Group, Campanian to Campanian (83.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: R. G. Young. 1987. Remains of ancient life in Cretaceous rocks of the Dinosaur Triangle. In W. R. Averett (ed.), Paleontology and Geology of the Dinosaur Triangle: Guidebook for 1987 Field Trip. Museum of Western Colorado, Grand Junction 45-54 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 56614: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.11.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
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Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile
 Testudines -
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
 Dinosauria -
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
? Albertosaurus sp. Osborn 1905 Alberta lizard
 Avetheropoda -
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
"duckbill"
 Ornithischia -
Ceratopsia indet. ceratopsian
 Loricata -
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825 gar
"garpike-like form"