UCM 84150, Tarantula Mesa (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Garfield County, Utah (38.0° N, 111.0° W: paleocoordinates 45.8° N, 81.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Formation referred to as the "Beds on Tarantula Mesa".

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; bentonitic, gray mudstone and carbonaceous mudstone

• "gray, bentonitic mudstone, carbonaceous mudstone, and gray-brown, fine-grained sandstone"

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by J. G. Eaton

Primary reference: J. G. Eaton. 1990. Stratigraphic revision of Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) rocks in the Henry Basin, Utah. The Mountain Geologist 27(1):27-38 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 167519: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.03.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
Tyrannosauridae indet.
Tyrannosauridae indet. Osborn 1906 tyrannosaurid
teeth fragments
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet.
Trionychidae indet. softshell turtle
carapace fragment