UMNH VP 890, GS-ENM (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Kosmoceratops type

Where: Garfield County, Utah (37.6° N, 111.9° W: paleocoordinates 45.6° N, 83.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Member (Kaiparowits Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; silty sandstone

• "channel facies"
• "silty sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: soft parts

Collected by S. Richardson in 2009

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: E. M. Roberts, A. L. Titus, and J. G. Eaton. 2009. Late Cretaceous Depositional Systems and Paleontology of the Southern Sevier Foreland Basin, South Central Utah. Advances in Western Interior Cretaceous Geology and Paleontology Field Trip Guide, May 24th 2009. 1-22 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 131868: authorized by Graeme Lloyd, entered by Graeme Lloyd on 31.07.2012, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Kosmoceratops richardsoni n. gen. n. sp.1
Kosmoceratops richardsoni n. gen. n. sp.1 Sampson et al. 2010 ceratopsid
UMNH VP 17000; "Kaiparowits new taxon A"
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet.2 Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
incl. skin impressions