Also known as AMNH-Sinclair Expedition, States Mine
Where: Delta County, Colorado (40.7° N, 108.2° W: paleocoordinates 47.8° N, 77.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Bowie Shale Member (Mesaverde Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coal and sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, trace
Collected by B. Brown in 1937; reposited in the AMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: B. Brown. 1938. The mystery dinosaur. Natural History 38(3):190-202 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 64640: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid AMNH 3650; trackway with 15' stride (reinterpreted as 7.5' stride in ref 23373)
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