NMMNH L-5293, Powerline Ridge tracksite (Site E): Late/Upper Albian, New Mexico
collected by E. J. Kappus 2002

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Iguanodontipodidae
Caririchnium sp. Leonardi 1984
400 specimens
    = Caririchnium informal sp. B Leonardi 1984
Kappus et al. 2011
Reptilia
Ankylosauria indet. (Osborn 1923)
Kappus et al. 2011
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Mexico County:Doña Ana
Coordinates: 31.8° North, 106.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.2° North, 68.8° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:3614 feet
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Albian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 4
Key time interval:Late/Upper Albian Ammonoid zone: Plesioturrilites brazoensis
Age range of interval:106.20000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Bisbee Formation:Mojado Member:Sarten
Local section:Cerro de Cristo Rey Local bed:1
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: top of second sandstone member; originally called Anapra Sandstone; lowermost site in area, 9 m above base of unit
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:massive,"cross stratification",bioturbation,hematitic sandstone
Secondary lithology:gray "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: prints preserved as undertracks on "a bioturbated, hematized sandstone bedding plane that was once covered by a veneer of silty mud." "crossbedded massive sandstone"
Environment:marginal marine indet.
Geology comments: "tidal and littoral unit"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,mold/impression,trace
Degree of concentration:-single event
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Associated major elements:many
Disassociated major elements:some
Fragmentation:none
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:NMMNH
Collectors:E. J. Kappus Collection dates:2002
Metadata
Also known as:Anapra tracksite, Cerro de Cristo Rey
Database number:75717
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-10-24 12:54:13 Last modified:2022-07-01 08:54:01
Access level:the public Released:2007-10-24 12:54:13
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
25566.ETE E. J. Kappus, S. G. Lucas, A. P. Hunt, A. B. Heckert, and M. G. Lockley. 2003. Dinosaur footprints from the Lower Cretaceous Sarten Member of the Mojado Formation at Cerro de Cristo Rey, Dona Aña County, New Mexico. Ichnos 10:263-267 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

66381 E. J. Kappus, S. G. Lucas, and R. Langford. 2011. The Cerro de Cristo Rey Cretaceous dinosaur tracksites, Sunland Park, New Mexico, USA, and Chihuahua, Mexico. In R. M. Sullivan, S. G. Lucas, & J. A. Spielmann (eds.), Fossil Record 3. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 53:272-288 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
25992ETE M. G. Lockley, J. Holbrook, R. Kukihara and M. Matsukawa. 2006. An ankylosaur-dominated dinosaur tracksite in the Cretaceous Dakota Group of Colorado: paleoenvironmental and sequence stratigraphic context. In S. G. Lucas and R. M. Sullivan (eds.), Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35:95-104 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55641 A. A. Ramírez-Velasco, R. Hernández-Rivera, and R. Servin-Pichardo. 2014. The hadrosaurian record from Mexico. In D. A. Eberth & D. C. Evans (ed.), Hadrosaurs 340-360 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]