Also known as 8 miles southeast of Tsaya
Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.0° N, 108.0° W: paleocoordinates 43.2° N, 79.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Fossil Forest Member (Fruitland Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• Disagreement as to whether it comes from the upper Fruitland Fm. or the lower Kirtland Fm., but Gates et al. (2021) argue for the former
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C. H. Sternberg in 1922–1923; reposited in the FMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: J. H. Ostrom. 1961. A new species of hadrosaurian dinosaur from the Cretaceous of New Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 35(3):575-577 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 51534: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 07.06.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Hadrosauridae indet., Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus n. gen. n. sp.
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