UMNH VP Loc. 450 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as GS-ENM

Where: Kane County, Utah (37.4° N, 111.7° W: paleocoordinates 45.4° N, 83.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• middle member of formation, below 75.96 Ma date

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coarse channel fill; sandstone

• "major fluvial channel sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

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: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 97811: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.08.2010

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Utahceratops gettyi Sampson et al. 2010 ceratopsid
UMNH VP 14523; "Kaiparowits new taxon B"