south branch, Meyers Creek: Late/Upper Campanian, New Mexico
collected by C. H. Sternberg 1921

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Adocidae
Adocus kirtlandius n. sp. Gilmore 1919
Sullivan et al. 2012
USNM 8593
Reptilia - Ceratopsidae
Pentaceratops fenestratus n. sp. Wiman 1930
2 individuals
synonym of Pentaceratops sternbergii
PMU.R.200
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Mexico County:San Juan
Coordinates: 36.2° North, 107.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.4° North, 79.3° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:1968 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Late/Upper Campanian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kirtland
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Associated major elements:all
Fragmentation:occasional
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:C. H. Sternberg Collection dates:1921
Collection method comments: skull and skeleton are cotypes, collected nearby but not directly associated
Metadata
Also known as:P. fenestratus type site, Ah-shi-sle-pah Wash, Myers Creek
Database number:39231
Authorizer:M. Carrano, D. Nicholson Enterer:M. Carrano, D. Nicholson
Modifier:M. Carrano
Created:2004-05-24 12:45:10 Last modified:2021-10-19 09:55:47
Access level:the public Released:2004-05-24 12:45:10
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
18513.ETE C. Wiman. 1930. Über Ceratopsia aus der Oberen Kreide in New Mexico [On Ceratopsia from the Upper Cretaceous in New Mexico]. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis, Series 4 7(2):1-19 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

14580ETE C. W. Gilmore. 1935. On the Reptilia of the Kirtland Formation of New Mexico, with descriptions of new species of fossil turtles. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 83(2978):159-188 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Holroyd]
78366 A. P. Hunt, S. G. Lucas, and N. J. Mateer. 1992. Charles H. Sternberg and the collection of Late Cretaceous vertebrate fossils from the San Juan Basin, New Mexico. In S. G. Lucas, B. S. Kues, T. E. Williamson, & A. P. Hunt (eds.), New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 43rd Annual Fall Field Conference, San Juan Basin IV 43:241-250 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13599ETE T. M. Lehman. 1990. The ceratopsian subfamily Chasmosaurinae: sexual dimorphism and systematics. In K. Carpenter and P. J. Currie (eds.), Dinosaur Systematics: Perspectives and Approaches, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 211-229 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14625ETE T. M. Lehman. 1993. New data on the ceratopsian dinosaur Pentaceratops sternbergii Osborn from New Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 67(2):279-288 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]
12314ETE R. S. Lull. 1933. A revision of the Ceratopsia or horned dinosaurs. Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 3(3):1-175 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14787ETE N. J. Mateer. 1981. The reptilian megafauna from the Kirtland Shale (Late Cretaceous) of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico. In S. G. Lucas, J. K. Rigby, Jr. & B. S. Kues (eds.), Advances in San Juan Basin Paleontology. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque 49-75 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]
9303 T. Rowe, E. H. Colbert, and J. D. Nations. 1981. The occurrence of Pentaceratops (Ornithischia: Ceratopsia) with a description of its frill. Advances in San Juan Basin Paleontology, S. G. Lucas, J. K. Rigby Jr., and B. S. Kues (eds.), University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque 29-48 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
50161 R. M. Sullivan, S. E. Jasinski, and S. G. Lucas. 2012. Re-assessment of Late Campanian (Kirtlandian) turtles from the Upper Cretaceous Fruitland and Kirtland formations, San Juan Basin, New Mexico, USA. In D. B. Brinkman, P. A. Holroyd, J. D. Gardner (eds.), Morphology and Evolution of Turtles 337-387 [D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson/P. Holroyd]
66821 R. M. Sullivan and S. G. Lucas. 2011. Charles Hazelius Sternberg and his San Juan Basin Cretaceous dinosaur collections: correspondence and photographs (1920–1925). In R. M. Sullivan, S. G. Lucas, & J. A. Spielmann (eds.), Fossil Record 3. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 53:429-471 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
78190 D. L. Wolberg and D. Bellis. 1990. Report of the regional historical, stratigraphic, and paleontological framework of the Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) Fossil Forest locality near Split Lip Flats, San Juan County, New Mexico, with possible management options and a review of paleontological management goals for public lands. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Open File Report 368:1-437 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]