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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Zuniceratops christopheri n. gen. n. sp.
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