Last Chance Theropod locality (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as NCPALEOUT21

Where: Emery County, Utah (38.6° N, 111.3° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 45.8° N, 69.5° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mussentuchit Member (Cedar Mountain Formation), Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• "Last Chance Theropod (NCPALEOUT21) (99.449 + 0.048/−0.051) is stratigraphically bound between MAZ1 and MAZ2 and located directly above the Last Chance Sandstone (Tucker et al., Accepted), the boundary between the upper and lower Mussentuchit Member (Figure 1 and Data S5)." (Avrahami et al 2024)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, sandy mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: H. M. Avrahami, P. J. Makovicky, R. T. Tucker and L. E. Zanno. 2024. A new semi‐fossorial thescelosaurine dinosaur from the Cenomanian‐age Mussentuchit Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah. The Anatomical Record 307(12):3717-3781more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 235578: authorized by William Gearty, entered by William Gearty on 18.07.2024

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Neornithischia - Thescelosauridae
Thescelosaurinae indet. Sternberg 1940 ornithischian
NCSM 33547, 36187, 36137, 36192, and 36281; specimens are among the smallest recovered and may represent a single individual