UMNH VP Loc. 945 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as GS-ENM

Where: Kane County, Utah (37.5° N, 111.7° W: paleocoordinates 45.5° N, 82.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained mudstone

• Fine-grained, mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2007

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: M. A. Getty, M. A. Loewen, E. M. Roberts, A. L. Titus, and S. D. Sampson. 2010. Taphonomy of horned dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) from the late Campanian Kaiparowits Formation, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah. In M. J. Ryan, B. J. Chinnery-Allgeier, D. A. Eberth (eds.), New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 478-494 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 97810: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.08.2010

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia -
Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842 crocodilian
UMNH VP 20444, UMNH VP 20454
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Utahceratops gettyi Sampson et al. 2010 ceratopsid