Also known as UT-21-07-23-Z1
Where: Emery County, Utah (39.1° N, 110.9° W: paleocoordinates 40.3° N, 72.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Mussentuchit Member (Cedar Mountain Formation), Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• "Magic Man [UT-21-07-23-Z1] (lower Mussentuchit between MAZ1 and Last Chance Sandstone 99.466 + 0.046/−0.053 Ma) is the stratigraphically lowest locality preserving a partial skeleton." (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 235579: authorized by William Gearty, entered by William Gearty on 18.07.2024
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Thescelosaurinae indet. Sternberg 1940 ornithischian NCSM 36190, 36191, and 36272; specimens represent the largest thescelosaurine partial individual recovered to date, but this specimen has not yet been completely excavated
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