Castlegate: Campanian, Utah

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768
ETE occurrence; species: Reptilia
Testudinidae indet. Batsch 1788
ETE occurrence; species: Testudinidae
    = Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811
Vlachos 2017
only mentioned as "turtles" in the abstract; no reason why it should be from testudinids
Reptilia - Crocodylia
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
ETE occurrence; species: Crocodylia
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Utah
Coordinates: 41.9° North, 112.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.7° North, 80.8° West
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
*Epoch:Senonian
*International age/stage:Campanian - Campanian
Key time interval:Campanian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Castlegate
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: . radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: .
Environment:deltaic indet.
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: deltaic, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: flood, ETE env comment: flding surf
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Collection size:1 specimens
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 478, ; ETE museum list:
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 1550
Database number:22675
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer, E. Vlachos Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer, E. Vlachos
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2001-04-23 01:00:00 Last modified:2005-03-06 11:39:28
Access level:the public Released:2001-04-23 01:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

5738.ETE 1494A. Wrobleski. 1999. A tale of two bonebeds: comparisons of an upper Triassic and upper Cretaceous assemblage. In: Abstracts of papers; Fifty-ninth annual meeting, Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19(3 Suppl.):1-78 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]

Secondary references:

62170 E. Vlachos. 2017. Personal opinions. [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]