Paria River Amphitheater (MNA) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as The Blues, GS-ENM

Where: Utah (37.6° N, 111.9° W: paleocoordinates 45.6° N, 83.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone and mudstone

• "intercalated sandstones and mudstones"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1976

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

Primary reference: F. L. DeCourten and D. A. Russell. 1985. A specimen of Ornithomimus velox (Theropoda, Ornithomimidae) from the terminal Cretaceous Kaiparowits Formation of southern Utah. Journal of Paleontology 59(5):1091-1099 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 70276: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.03.2007

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Ornithomimidae
Ornithomimus sp. Marsh 1890 ornithomimid
MNA Pl.1762