Also known as Starkville
Where: Las Animas County, Colorado (37.1° N, 104.5° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 48.1° N, 69.6° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Raton Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• 1-2 m below K/T boundary
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: C. L. Pillmore, M. G. Lockley, R. F. Fleming and K. R. Johnson. 1994. Footprints in the rocks--new evidence from the Raton Basin that dinosaurs flourished on land until the terminal Cretaceous impact event . Papers Presented to New Developments the KT Event and Other Catastrophes in Earth History. LPI Contribution 825:89-90 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 219683: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 16.04.2021
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Ceratopsidae indet. Marsh 1888 ceratopsid | |
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid |