Also known as Crevasse Canyon
Where: Bernalillo County, New Mexico (35.1° N, 107.1° W: paleocoordinates 40.0° N, 75.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Gibson Coal Member (Crevasse Canyon Formation), Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; carbonaceous shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. A. Sturdevant, Jr. & J. W. Melvin in 1958
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), mechanical,
• discovered by two UNM graduate students
Primary reference: S. G. Lucas, A. P. Hunt, and R. Pence. 1988. Some Late Cretaceous reptiles from New Mexico. In D. L. Wolberg (ed.), Contributions to Late Cretaceous paleontology and stratigraphy of New Mexico. Part III. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Bulletin 122:49-60 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 52051: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 15.07.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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