Two Rocks Balanced (MSM loc 98-61) (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: Collignoniceras woollgari ammonoid zone, Lower Member (Moreno Hill Formation), Middle Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• Probably Collignoniceras woollgari Zone + "basal middle-Turonian"; "lower member"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; poorly lithified mudstone

• zone includes "terrestrial aquatic microfauna"; "fluvial origin"
• "... from dark, non-calcareous, mudstones and shales..." "friable mudstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D. G. Wolfe in 1996

Collection methods: surface (float), sieve

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 52361: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 04.08.2005, edited by Steven Miller

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Jeyawati rugoculus n. gen. n. sp.
Jeyawati rugoculus n. gen. n. sp. McDonald et al. 2010 ornithopod