Chandler locality: Campanian - Maastrichtian, Colorado
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Reptilia indet.
Laurenti 1768
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Testudines indet.
Batsch 1788
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Reptilia
- Crocodylia
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Crocodylia indet.
(Owen 1842)
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Reptilia
- Dinosauria
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Dinosauria indet.
Owen 1842
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Reptilia
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Ceratopsia indet.
Marsh 1890
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Hadrosauridae indet.
Cope 1869
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| "duckbill" | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Tyrannosauridae
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? Albertosaurus sp.
Osborn 1905
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Avetheropoda
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Carnosauria indet.
Huene 1920
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
- Lepisosteidae
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Lepisosteidae indet.
Cuvier 1825
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| "garpike-like form" | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Colorado | County: | Fremont |
| Coordinates: | 38.4° North, 105.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 45.1° North, 77.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Altitude: | 1747 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Key time interval: | Campanian - Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Mesaverde |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | many |
| Disassociated minor elements: | many |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 56614 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-11-21 11:46:24 | Last modified: | 2005-11-21 13:46:24 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-11-21 11:46:23 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 15240. | ETE | R. G. Young. 1987. Remains of ancient life in Cretaceous rocks of the Dinosaur Triangle. In W. R. Averett (ed.), Paleontology and Geology of the Dinosaur Triangle: Guidebook for 1987 Field Trip. Museum of Western Colorado, Grand Junction 45-54 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |