Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.3° N, 108.2° W: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 79.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: De-na-zin Member (Kirtland Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; concretionary, gray mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: concretion
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: R. M. Sullivan. 1999. Nodocephalosaurus kirtlandensis, gen. et sp. nov., a new ankylosaurid dinosaur (Ornithischia: Ankylosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Kirtland Formation (Upper Campanian) San Juan Basin, New Mexico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19(1):126-139 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 54104: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 22.09.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Nodocephalosaurus kirtlandensis n. gen. n. sp.
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