Where: Garfield County, Utah (37.6° N, 111.9° W: paleocoordinates 45.6° N, 83.0° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Kaiparowits Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• middle part of formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: channel lag; muddy sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 2004
Collection methods: mechanical,
Primary reference: A. L. Titus, J. D. Powell, E. M. Roberts, S. D. Sampson, S. L. Pollock, J. I. Kirkland, and L. B. Albright. 2005. Late Cretaceous stratigraphy, depositional environments, and macrovertebrate paleontology of the Kaiparowits Plateau, Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, Utah. In J. Pederson & C. M. Dehler (ed.), Interior Western United States. Geological Society of America Field Guide 6:101-128 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 75467: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 10.10.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Gryposaurus monumentensis n. sp.
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