Red Mountain Mine (AMNH Loc. 6781) (Cretaceous of the United States)

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
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
AMNH 3650; trackway with 15' stride (reinterpreted as 7.5' stride in ref 23373)