NMMNH L-2014 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.5° N, 108.3° W: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 79.6° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "approximately 30 ft. below Ojo Alamo sand"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coarse channel fill; lithified, brown sandstone and white sandstone

• "Eroded from small brown sandstone slab in white channel sand"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by P. Sealey in 1998

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: S. E. Jasinski, R. M. Sullivan, and S. G. Lucas. 2011. Taxonomic composition of the Alamo Wash local fauna from the Upper Cretaceous Ojo Alamo Formation (Naashoibito Member), San Juan Basin, New Mexico. In R. M. Sullivan, S. G. Lucas, & J. A. Spielmann (eds.), Fossil Record 3. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 53:216-271 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 222084: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.09.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
Glyptodontopelta mimus Ford 2000 ankylosaur
NMMNH P-27420, scute
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Ceratopsidae indet. Marsh 1888 ceratopsid
NMMNH P-7983, skull