CFS; SLF: Early/Lower Cenomanian, Utah

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Theropoda - Caenagnathidae
Caenagnathidae indet. Sternberg 1940
see common names

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: middle part of member
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
Associated major elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:228454
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2022-12-08 12:21:28 Last modified:2022-12-08 12:23:31
Access level:the public Released:2022-12-08 12:21:28
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]