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: Collignoniceras woollgari ammonoid zone, Lower Member (Moreno Hill Formation), Middle Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• Probably Collignoniceras woollgari Zone, early middle Turonian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: delta plain; concretionary lithology not reported
•"In the vicinity of the dinosaur locality, the lower Moreno Hill consists primarily of carbonaceous shales, channel sandstones and crevasse splays grading laterally into mudstones and siltstones, all of which were probably deposited on a broad, low relief coastal plain."
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected in 1998
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
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: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 52360: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 04.08.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Reptilia | |
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Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid | |
Suskityrannus hazelae n. gen. n. sp.
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Crocodylidae indet. crocodile | |
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Cheloniidae indet. Bonaparte 1832 sea turtle | |
| Actinopteri | |
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Amiidae indet. Huxley 1861 bowfin | |
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Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825 gar | |