Cattle Ranch (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Meyers Creek, Myers Creek, Ah-shi-sle-pah

Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.2° N, 107.9° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 79.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kirtland Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. H. Sternberg in 1921

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: C. Wiman. 1930. Über Ceratopsia aus der Oberen Kreide in New Mexico [On Ceratopsia from the Upper Cretaceous in New Mexico]. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis, Series 4 7(2):1-19 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64094: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 31.08.2006, edited by David Nicholson

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Nanhsiungchelyidae
Basilemys gaffneyi1 Sullivan et al. 2012 turtle
PMU.R.29 nearly complete shell (= #93)
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet.2 Owen 1842 dinosaur
pelvis, #92
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Ceratopsidae indet.2 Marsh 1888 ceratopsid
frill, #94 or 96
? Pentaceratops sp. Osborn 1923 ceratopsid
parietal fragment, #94 or 96