1 mile north of Barrel Springs (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.3° N, 108.0° W: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 79.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kirtland Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by C. H. Sternberg in 1921

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: R. M. Sullivan and S. G. Lucas. 2011. Charles Hazelius Sternberg and his San Juan Basin Cretaceous dinosaur collections: correspondence and photographs (1920–1925). In R. M. Sullivan, S. G. Lucas, & J. A. Spielmann (eds.), Fossil Record 3. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 53:429-471 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 196540: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.09.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata - Baenidae
Baena sp. Leidy 1870 turtle
complete carapace, plastron; #55
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Ceratops sp. Marsh 1888 ceratopsid
"skull bar"; #56