Coal Creek [FMNH] (Cretaceous of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
FMNH field no. 49
Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus n. gen. n. sp. Ostrom 1961 lambeosaurine
FMNH P27393; Sternberg #24