5 miles south of Wood Ranch (OMNH) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as OMNH 40-IX-1-41 to IX-44-41

Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.2° N, 108.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 79.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fruitland Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• either upper Fruitland Fm. or Hunter Wash Mbr. of Kirtland Fm. - probably former, given proximity to Fossil Forest area

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, carbonaceous shale

• Carbonaceous shale with red resinous nodules. "dark grey shale containing plant remains and amber"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Stovall in 1940

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: B. S. Kues, J. W. Froehlich, J. A. Schiebout and S. G. Lucas. 1977. Paleontological survey, resource assessment, and mitigation plan for the Bisti-Star Lake Area, northwestern New Mexico. Report to the Bureau of Land Management, Albuquerque, New Mexico [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 52058: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 18.07.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
"plant remains and amber"
Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Titanoceratops ouranos n. gen. n. sp.
Titanoceratops ouranos n. gen. n. sp. Longrich 2011 ceratopsid
OMNH 10165