Westmoor Golf Course: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Colorado

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Baenidae
Neurankylus sp. Lambe 1902
Hutchison and Holroyd 2003
from DMNH loc 2368
Reptilia - Testudines
Cryptodira indet. (Cope 1868)
Hutchison and Holroyd 2003
from DMNH loc 2370
Reptilia - Nodosauridae
Nodosauridae indet. Marsh 1890
1 specimen
DMNH 39036, scute
Reptilia - Ceratopsidae
Ceratopsidae indet. Marsh 1888
1 specimen
DMNH 25914, braincase
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Colorado County:Adams
Coordinates: 39.9° North, 105.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.6° North, 81.3° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
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:70.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Denver
Regional section:Denver Basin Regional bed:3
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:DMNH
Metadata
Also known as:Loc. 18, DMNH Locs. 2366, 2367, 2368, 2369, 2370, 2371
Database number:49551
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Holroyd Enterer:M. Carrano, P. Holroyd
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-04-19 14:22:41 Last modified:2023-01-19 14:09:55
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-19 14:22:41
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

13266.ETE K. Carpenter and D. B. Young. 2002. Late Cretaceous dinosaurs from the Denver Basin, Colorado. Rocky Mountain Geology 37(2):237-254 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

14441ETE P. A. Holroyd and J. H. Hutchison. 2002. Late Cretaceous and Early Paleocene turtle biogeography: new data from the Denver Basin, Colorado. GSA Abstracts with Programs [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Holroyd]
26071 J. H. Hutchison and P. A. Holroyd. 2003. Late Cretaceous and early Paleocene turtles of the Denver Basin, Colorado. Rocky Mountain Geology 38(1):121-142 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]