Pentaceratops type, AMNH loc. 12863: Late Campanian, New Mexico
collected by C. H. Sternberg 1922
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Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Ceratopsidae
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Pentaceratops sternbergii n. gen., n. sp.
Osborn 1923
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1 individual | |||||||||
| AMNH 6325 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New Mexico | County: | San Juan |
| Coordinates: | 36.2° North, 108.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 46.4° North, 71.0° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Altitude: | 1889 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 |
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 |
| Articulated whole bodies: | all |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | AMNH | ||
| Collectors: | C. H. Sternberg | Collection dates: | 1922 |
| Collection method comments: found with postcranial skeleton, but this was later discarded (!) | |||
Metadata
| Also known as: | Tsaya | ||
| Database number: | 39229 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-05-24 12:39:40 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-05-24 12:39:40 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 13080. | ETE | H. F. Osborn. 1923. A new genus and species of Ceratopsia from New Mexico, Pentaceratops sternbergii. American Museum Novitates 93:1-3 [M. Carrano/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] | |
| 78329 | A. P. Hunt and S. G. Lucas. 2003. Origin and stratigraphy of historic dinosaur quarries in the Upper Cretaceous Fruitland Formation of the Fossil Forest Research Natural Area, northwestern New Mexico. In S. G. Lucas, S. C. Semken, W. Berglof, & D. Ulmer-Scholle (eds.), New Mexico Geological Society, 54th Field Conference, Geology of the Zuni Plateau. New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook 54:383-388 [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] |
| 12314 | ETE | 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] |
| 62757 | H. F. Osborn. 1923. Extinct vertebrates. Fifty-Fourth Annual Report of the American Museum of Natural History for the Year 1922 61-66 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 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] | |
| 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] | |
| 78190 | D. L. Wolberg and D. Bellis. 1990. Report of the regional historical, stratigraphic, and paleontological framework of the Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) Fossil Forest locality near Split Lip Flats, San Juan County, New Mexico, with possible management options and a review of paleontological management goals for public lands. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Open File Report 368:1-437 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |