Mini Troll: Early/Lower Cenomanian, Utah
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Ornithopoda indet.
(Marsh 1881)
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Utah | County: | Emery |
| Coordinates: | 38.7° North, 111.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.0° North, 73.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Cenomanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 5 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Cenomanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Dakota | Formation: | Cedar Mountain | Member: | Mussentuchit |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: upper part of member, ca. 7-8 m below contact with Naturita Fm. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | paleosol/pedogenic silty mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | estuary/bay |
| Geology comments: "tidal flat" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 228453 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2022-12-08 12:18:40 | Last modified: | 2022-12-08 12:18:40 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2022-12-08 12:18:40 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 79275. | R. T. Tucker, L. E. Zanno, H. Huang and P. J. Makovicky. 2020. A refined temporal framework for newly discovered fossil assemblages of the upper Cedar Mountain Formation (Mussentuchit Member), Mussentuchit Wash, Central Utah. Cretaceous Research 110:104384 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham/M. Carrano] |