Pentaceratops site, Hunter Wash (KU): Late Campanian, New Mexico
collected by W. Clemens 1966
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Ceratopsidae
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| 1 individual | ||||||||||
| KU 16100 | ||||||||||
| Fowler and Freedman Fowler 2020 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New Mexico | County: | San Juan |
| Coordinates: | 36.3° North, 108.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 46.6° North, 71.2° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Altitude: | 1828 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| Key time interval: | Late Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.6 - 72.2 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Fruitland | Member: | Fossil Forest | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: orig. upper Fruitland, then lower Kirtland, then Fossil Forest Member of the Fruitland | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | "shale" |
| Lithology description: "interbedded sandstone, shale, carbonaceous sandstone and shale, coal, and local thin beds of limestone" | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Articulated whole bodies: | none |
| Associated major elements: | all |
| Disassociated major elements: | none |
| Disassociated minor elements: | none |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | W. Clemens | Collection dates: | 1966 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 34827 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-10-03 08:42:56 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-10-03 08:42:56 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 9303. | T. Rowe, E. H. Colbert, and J. D. Nations. 1981. The occurrence of Pentaceratops (Ornithischia: Ceratopsia) with a description of its frill. Advances in San Juan Basin Paleontology, S. G. Lucas, J. K. Rigby Jr., and B. S. Kues (eds.), University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque 29-48 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 72668 | D. W. Fowler and E. A. Freedman Fowler. 2020. Transitional evolutionary forms in chasmosaurine ceratopsid dinosaurs: evidence from the Campanian of New Mexico. PeerJ 8:e9251:1-49 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd/M. Carrano] | |
| 84668 | J. J. Fry. 2015. Redescription of a Specimen of Pentaceratops (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) And Phylogenetic Evaluation of Five Referred Specimens from the Upper Cretaceous of New Mexico 1-91 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 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] | |
| 13834 | ETE | P. J. Hutchinson and B. S. Kues. 1985. Depositional environments and paleontology of Lewis Shale to lower Kirtland Shale sequence (Upper Cretaceous), Bisti area, northwestern New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Circular 195:24-54 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 14625 | ETE | T. M. Lehman. 1993. New data on the ceratopsian dinosaur Pentaceratops sternbergii Osborn from New Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 67(2):279-288 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano] |