UCM 84152, Tarantula Mesa (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Garfield County, Utah (38.0° N, 110.9° 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 "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 167520: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.03.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Osteichthyes -
Osteichthyes indet. Huxley 1880 bony fish
teeth; scales
Reptilia
 Testudinata - Baenidae
Baena sp. Leidy 1870 turtle
carapace fragment
 Testudines - Adocidae
Adocus sp. Cope 1868 turtle
carapace fragments
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. softshell turtle
carapace fragments
 Crocodylia -
Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842 crocodilian
teeth fragments
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
tooth partial