Where: Washington County, Utah (37.5° N, 113.5° W: paleocoordinates 45.8° N, 84.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Iron Springs Formation, Late/Upper Santonian to Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 70.6 Ma)
• "equivalent to the John Henry Member of the Straight Cliffs Formation"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by P. Goldstrand, J. Kirkland & J. Eaton in 1990–1991
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: J. G. Eaton. 1999. Vertebrate paleontology of the Iron Springs Formation, Upper Cretaceous, southwestern Utah. In D. D. Gillette (ed.), Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah, Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 99-1:339-343 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 230113: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.05.2023
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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