northeast of Correo (UNM) (Cretaceous of the United States)

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

• Formation represents a coastal plain and littoral sediments.
• "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

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
UNM MV-800, R maxilla, coronoid of L dentary