Also known as P. fenestratus type site, Ah-shi-sle-pah Wash, Myers Creek
Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.2° N, 107.9° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 79.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Kirtland Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C. H. Sternberg in 1921
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• skull and skeleton are cotypes, collected nearby but not directly associated
Primary reference: C. Wiman. 1930. Über Ceratopsia aus der Oberen Kreide in New Mexico [On Ceratopsia from the Upper Cretaceous in New Mexico]. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis, Series 4 7(2):1-19 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 39231: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.05.2004, edited by David Nicholson
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Pentaceratops fenestratus n. sp." = Pentaceratops sternbergii
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Adocus kirtlandius n. sp.
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