Hunter Wash head (USNM) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Gilmore locality 53

Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.4° N, 108.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 79.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kirtland Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• uppermost part of formation, 25 ft below Ojo Alamo Fm

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Bauer in 1915; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1916. Contributions to the geology and paleontology of San Juan County, New Mexico. 2. Vertebrate faunas of the Ojo Alamo, Kirtland and Fruitland Formations. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 98-Q:279-302 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 62483: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.07.2006

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
"Trachodontidae indet." = Hadrosauridae
"Trachodontidae indet." = Hadrosauridae Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
femur