SMP Loc. 210, Willow Wash (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.3° N, 108.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 79.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: De-na-zin Member (Kirtland Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; medium-grained, coarse sandstone

• "... believed... [to have been] washed in with the deposition of high energy sand."
• "... discovered... in a thin (<1cm) bed of medium-to-course grained sandstone near the base of a prominent mound. The dorsal side of the ilia rested on a mudstone-sandstone contact..."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. M. Sullivan in 1995

Collection methods: surface (float), mechanical,

Primary reference: R. M. Sullivan. 1997. A juvenile Ornithomimus antiquus (Dinosauria: Theropoda: Ornithomimosauria), from the Upper Cretaceous Kirtland Formation (De-na-zin Member), San Juan Basin, New Mexico. New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 48th Field Conference, Mesozoic Geology and Paleontology of the Four Corners Region 249-254 [J. Head/J. Head/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 47195: authorized by Jason Head, entered by Jason Head on 17.02.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano, Steven Miller and David Nicholson

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines -
Testudines indet.2 Batsch 1788 turtle
SMP VP-817
 Testudines - Trionychidae
"Aspideretoides austerus" = Trionyx austerus2
"Aspideretoides austerus" = Trionyx austerus2 Hay 1908 softshell turtle
SMP VP-811, SMP VP-1959
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Ceratopsidae indet.1 Marsh 1888 ceratopsid
SMP VP 1900
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
cf. Hadrosauridae indet.3 Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
SMP VP-974, ?paroccipital process
Hadrosauridae indet.3 Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
SMP VP-827, 1960
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
Daspletosaurus sp.1 Russell 1970 tyrannosaurine
tooth marks
 Theropoda - Ornithomimidae
Ornithomimidae indet.4 Marsh 1890 ornithomimid
SMP VP-971
 Theropoda -
"Ornithomimus antiquus" = Coelosaurus antiquus
"Ornithomimus antiquus" = Coelosaurus antiquus Leidy 1865 ornithomimosaur