Cattle Ranch: Late/Upper Campanian, New Mexico
collected by C. H. Sternberg 1921

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Nanhsiungchelyidae
Aspideretes sp. Hay 1904
Sullivan and Lucas 2011 1 individual
PMU.R.29 nearly complete shell (= #93)
    = Basilemys gaffneyi Sullivan et al. 2012
Sullivan et al. 2012
Reptilia
Dinosauria indet. (Owen 1842)
Sullivan and Lucas 2011 1 specimen
pelvis, #92
Reptilia - Ceratopsidae
Ceratopsidae indet. Marsh 1888
Sullivan and Lucas 2011 1 specimen
frill, #94 or 96
? Pentaceratops sp. Osborn 1923
1 specimen
parietal fragment, #94 or 96
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Mexico County:San Juan
Coordinates: 36.2° North, 107.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.4° North, 79.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:1968 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:Kirtland
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Disassociated major elements:all
Fragmentation:frequent
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:C. H. Sternberg Collection dates:1921
Metadata
Also known as:Meyers Creek, Myers Creek, Ah-shi-sle-pah
Database number:64094
Authorizer:M. Carrano, D. Nicholson Enterer:M. Carrano, D. Nicholson
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-08-31 11:56:19 Last modified:2021-10-19 10:24:57
Access level:the public Released:2006-08-31 11:56:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
18513.ETE C. Wiman. 1930. Über Ceratopsia aus der Oberen Kreide in New Mexico [On Ceratopsia from the Upper Cretaceous in New Mexico]. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis, Series 4 7(2):1-19 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

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]
12314ETE R. S. Lull. 1933. A revision of the Ceratopsia or horned dinosaurs. Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 3(3):1-175 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
50161 R. M. Sullivan, S. E. Jasinski, and S. G. Lucas. 2012. Re-assessment of Late Campanian (Kirtlandian) turtles from the Upper Cretaceous Fruitland and Kirtland formations, San Juan Basin, New Mexico, USA. In D. B. Brinkman, P. A. Holroyd, J. D. Gardner (eds.), Morphology and Evolution of Turtles 337-387 [D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson/P. Holroyd]
66821 R. M. Sullivan and S. G. Lucas. 2011. Charles Hazelius Sternberg and his San Juan Basin Cretaceous dinosaur collections: correspondence and photographs (1920–1925). In R. M. Sullivan, S. G. Lucas, & J. A. Spielmann (eds.), Fossil Record 3. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 53:429-471 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]