Magic Man locality: Early Cenomanian, Utah
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Thescelosauridae
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| 1 individual | ||||||||||
| NCSM 36190, 36191, and 36272; specimens represent the largest thescelosaurine partial individual recovered to date, but this specimen has not yet been completely excavated | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Utah | County: | Emery |
| Coordinates: | 39.1° North, 110.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 46.2° North, 68.9° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Cenomanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 5 |
| Key time interval: | Early Cenomanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 100.5 - 93.9 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | minimum 99.466 ± 0.050 Ma (U/Pb) |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Cedar Mountain | Member: | Mussentuchit | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "Magic Man [UT-21-07-23-Z1] (lower Mussentuchit between MAZ1 and Last Chance Sandstone 99.466 + 0.046/−0.053 Ma) is the stratigraphically lowest locality preserving a partial skeleton." (Avrahami et al 2024) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified sandy mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | UT-21-07-23-Z1 | ||
| Database number: | 235579 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Gearty | Enterer: | W. Gearty |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2024-07-18 15:32:32 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2024-07-18 15:32:32 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 88897. | H. M. Avrahami, P. J. Makovicky, R. T. Tucker and L. E. Zanno. 2024. A new semi‐fossorial thescelosaurine dinosaur from the Cenomanian‐age Mussentuchit Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah. The Anatomical Record 307(12):3717-3781 [W. Gearty/W. Gearty/M. Carrano] |