Also known as Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
Where: Garfield County, Utah (37.7° N, 111.7° W: paleocoordinates 45.7° N, 82.9° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Kaiparowits Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• Upper portion of the middle unit of the Kaiparowits Formation, ca. 150 m above type locality for Gryposaurus monumentensis.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coarse channel fill; massive sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by D. Lofgren in 2007–2008
Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: T. A. Gates, E. K. Lund, D. B. DeBlieux, A. L. Titus, D. C. Evans, M. A. Getty, J. I. Kirkland and J. G. Eaton. 2013. Ornithopod dinosaurs from the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument region, Utah, and their role in paleobiogeographic and macroevolutionary studies. In A. L. Titus & M. A. Loewen (ed.), At the Top of the Grand Staircase: The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah 463-481 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 172613: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.08.2015, edited by Richard Butler
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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