Also known as Big Burro Mountains

Where: Grant County, New Mexico (32.8° N, 108.6° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 74.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mancos Shale Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian to Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 89.3 Ma)

• upper part of "Colorado Shale"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1964

• collection at Western New Mexico University, Silver City

Primary reference: S. G. Lucas, A. P. Hunt, and R. Pence. 1988. Some Late Cretaceous reptiles from New Mexico. In D. L. Wolberg (ed.), Contributions to Late Cretaceous paleontology and stratigraphy of New Mexico. Part III. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Bulletin 122:49-60 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 179266: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.06.2016

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