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
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Thescelosaurinae indet. Sternberg 1940 ornithischian NCSM 33547, 36187, 36137, 36192, and 36281; specimens are among the smallest recovered and may represent a single individual
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