Also known as Tsaya
Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.2° N, 108.0° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 79.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Fossil Forest Member (Fruitland Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C. H. Sternberg in 1922; reposited in the AMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• found with postcranial skeleton, but this was later discarded (!)
Primary reference: H. F. Osborn. 1923. A new genus and species of Ceratopsia from New Mexico, Pentaceratops sternbergii. American Museum Novitates 93:1-3 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 39229: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.05.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Pentaceratops sternbergii n. gen. n. sp.
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