Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.3° N, 108.2° W: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 79.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: De-na-zin Member (Kirtland Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• low in member, ca. 12 m below Ash H
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by R. M. Sullivan in 2011; reposited in the NMMNH
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: V. M. Arbour, M. E. Burns, R. M. Sullivan, S. G. Lucas, A. K. Cantrell, J. Fry, and T. L. Suazo. 2014. A new ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous (Kirtlandian) of New Mexico with implications for ankylosaurid diversity in the Upper Cretaceous of western North America. PLoS ONE 9(9):e108804:1-14 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 169229: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.05.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Ziapelta sanjuanensis n. gen. n. sp.
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