5 miles south of Wood Ranch (OMNH): Late/Upper Campanian, New Mexico
collected by J. Stovall 1940

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
Longrich 2011
"plant remains and amber"
Reptilia - Ceratopsidae
Pentaceratops sternbergi (Osborn 1923)
Lehman 1998 1 individual
OMNH 10165 (9 measurements)
    = Pentaceratops sp. Osborn 1923
Hunt et al. 1992
    = Titanoceratops ouranos n. gen., n. sp. Longrich 2011
Longrich 2011
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Mexico County:San Juan
Coordinates: 36.2° North, 108.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.5° North, 79.5° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:1831 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:Fruitland
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: either upper Fruitland Fm. or Hunter Wash Mbr. of Kirtland Fm. - probably former, given proximity to Fossil Forest area
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray carbonaceous "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Carbonaceous shale with red resinous nodules. "dark grey shale containing plant remains and amber"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Articulated whole bodies:all
Associated major elements:many
Fragmentation:occasional
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:J. Stovall Collection dates:1940
Metadata
Also known as:OMNH 40-IX-1-41 to IX-44-41
Database number:52058
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:K. Maguire, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-07-18 08:36:26 Last modified:2021-10-08 13:53:55
Access level:the public Released:2005-07-18 08:36:26
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
15088.ETE B. S. Kues, J. W. Froehlich, J. A. Schiebout and S. G. Lucas. 1977. Paleontological survey, resource assessment, and mitigation plan for the Bisti-Star Lake Area, northwestern New Mexico. Report to the Bureau of Land Management, Albuquerque, New Mexico [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

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]
59350 A. P. Hunt and S. G. Lucas. 1992. Stratigraphy, paleontology and age of the Fruitland and Kirtland formations (Upper Cretaceous), San Juan Basin, New Mexico. In S. G. Lucas, B. S. Kues, T. E. Williamson & A. P. Hunt (eds.), New Mexico Geological Society, 43rd Annual Fall Field Conference, San Juan Basin IV, Guidebook 43:217-239 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
78329 A. P. Hunt and S. G. Lucas. 2003. Origin and stratigraphy of historic dinosaur quarries in the Upper Cretaceous Fruitland Formation of the Fossil Forest Research Natural Area, northwestern New Mexico. In S. G. Lucas, S. C. Semken, W. Berglof, & D. Ulmer-Scholle (eds.), New Mexico Geological Society, 54th Field Conference, Geology of the Zuni Plateau. New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook 54:383-388 [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]
13945ETE T. M. Lehman. 1998. A gigantic skull and skeleton of the horned dinosaur Pentaceratops sternbergi from New Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 72(5):894-906 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]
35447 N. R. Longrich. 2011. Titanoceratops ouranos, a giant horned dinosaur from the late Campanian of New Mexico. Cretaceous Research 32:264-276 [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]