UNM locality V-601: Santonian, New Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825
Reptilia - Crocodilia
Crocodilia indet. Owen 1842
spelled with current rank as Crocodylia
Reptilia
Dinosauria indet. (Owen 1842)
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Lamna sp. Cuvier 1816
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Scapanorhynchus sp. Woodward 1889
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax sp. Whitley 1939
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Mexico County:Bernalillo
Coordinates: 35.2° North, 107.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.1° North, 75.1° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:1788 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Santonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Santonian
Age range of interval:86.30000 - 83.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Crevasse Canyon Member:Gibson Coal
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:UNM
Metadata
Database number:52831
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-08-23 06:34:46 Last modified:2016-06-09 10:08:46
Access level:the public Released:2005-08-23 06:34:46
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

13936.ETE S. G. Lucas, A. P. Hunt, and R. Pence. 1988. Some Late Cretaceous reptiles from New Mexico. In D. L. Wolberg (ed.), Contributions to Late Cretaceous paleontology and stratigraphy of New Mexico. Part III. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Bulletin 122:49-60 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

1965 A. P. Hunt and S. G. Lucas. 1993. Cretaceous vertebrates of New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 2:77-91 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]