De-na-zin Wash (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Parasaurolophus tubicen type

Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.3° N, 108.0° W: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 79.4° 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)

• orig. assigned to Naashoibito Member.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. H. Sternberg in 1920–1921

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: C. Wiman. 1931. Parasaurolophus tubicen n. sp. aus der Kreide in New Mexico [Parasaurolophus tubicen n. sp. from the Cretaceous in New Mexico]. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientarum Upsaliensis, Series IV 7(5):3-11 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55295: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 06.10.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Parasaurolophus tubicen n. sp. Wiman 1931 lambeosaurine
PMU.R.222