Haystack Butte, MSM 98-65 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Catron County, New Mexico (35.1° N, 108.9° W: paleocoordinates 38.0° N, 75.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Moreno Hill Formation), Middle Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• Probably Collignoniceras woollgari Zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; concretionary, sideritic, black, gray mudstone

• "a low-energy fluvial overbank deposit"
• "dark gray to black mudstone and sideritic concretions"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected in 1998

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: D. G. Wolfe and J. I. Kirkland. 1998. Zuniceratops christopheri n. gen. & n. sp., a ceratopsian dinosaur from the Moreno Hill Formation (Cretaceous, Turonian) of west-central New Mexico. S. G. Lucas, J. I. Kirkland, and J. W. Estep (eds.), Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 14:307-317 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52359: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 04.08.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Zuniceratops christopheri n. gen. n. sp. Wolfe and Kirkland 1998 ceratopsian
MSM P2101