UNM 77-770: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, New Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Ankylosauridae
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? Pachycephalosauridae indet.
Sternberg 1945
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Kues et al. 1977 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| NMMNH P-46390, tooth (= UNM B-732) | ||||||||||
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= Nodosauridae indet.
Marsh 1890
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Lucas et al. 1987 | |||||||||
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= Ankylosauridae indet.
Brown 1908
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Jasinski et al. 2011 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New Mexico | County: | San Juan |
| Coordinates: | 36.2° North, 108.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.5° North, 85.6° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Altitude: | 1918 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Ojo Alamo | Member: | Naashoibito | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: orig. assigned middle part of Kirtland Formation | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Disassociated major elements: | all |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UNM |
Metadata
| Database number: | 47008 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-01-31 05:53:05 | Last modified: | 2018-07-13 16:33:26 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-01-31 05:53:05 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 12486. | ETE | S. G. Lucas, N. J. Mateer, A. P. Hunt and F. M. O'Neill. 1987. Dinosaurs, the age of the Fruitland and Kirtland Formations, and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the San Juan Basin, New Mexico. J. E. Fassett and J. K. Rigby, Jr. (eds.), The Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the San Juan and Raton Basins, New Mexico and Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 209:35-50 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 66250 | S. E. Jasinski, R. M. Sullivan, and S. G. Lucas. 2011. Taxonomic composition of the Alamo Wash local fauna from the Upper Cretaceous Ojo Alamo Formation (Naashoibito Member), San Juan Basin, New Mexico. In R. M. Sullivan, S. G. Lucas, & J. A. Spielmann (eds.), Fossil Record 3. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 53:216-271 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Mannion] | |
| 12493 | ETE | B. S. Kues, T. Lehman, and J. K. Rigby, Jr. 1977. The teeth of Alamosaurus sanjuanensis, a Late Cretaceous sauropod. Journal of Paleontology 54:864-869 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |