Also known as Elephant Butte, Kettle Top Butte, NMMNH L-343

Where: Sierra County, New Mexico (33.2° N, 107.1° W: paleocoordinates 40.6° N, 81.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hall Lake Formation (McRae Group), Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• 43 m meters the Hall Lake-Jose Creek contact

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, red, blue shale and fine-grained sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D. Staton, J. LaPoint, D. Gillette in 1983; reposited in the NMMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: R. P. Lozinsky, A. P. Hunt, D. L. Wolberg and S. G. Lucas. 1984. Late Cretaceous (Lancian) dinosaurs from the McRae Formation, Sierra County, New Mexico. New Mexico Geology 6(4):72-77 [B. Tiffney/J. Jacobson/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 55287: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 05.10.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano

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