Cifelli #2 Eolambia caroljonesa Quarry (22.2): Early Cenomanian, Utah
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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| 4 individuals | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Hypsilophodontidae
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| 1 element | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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| 1 element | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Dromaeosauridae
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| 1 element | ||||||||||
| listed as Dromaeosaurinae in Fig. 14 | ||||||||||
| 2 elements | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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| 8 elements | ||||||||||
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= Mesoeucrocodylia indet.
Whetstone and Whybrow 1983
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Tennant et al. 2016 | |||||||||
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Eusuchia indet.
Huxley 1875
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9 elements | |||||||||
| 1 element | ||||||||||
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Actinopteri
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Neopterygii indet.
Regan 1923
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27 elements | |||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
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| 2 elements | ||||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
- Lepisosteidae
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Actinopteri
- Amiiformes
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Amiiformes indet.
Hay 1929
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1 element | |||||||||
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unclassified
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| 2 elements | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Utah | County: | Emery |
| Coordinates: | 38.7° North, 111.3° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 45.9° North, 69.5° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| 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 |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Dakota | Formation: | Cedar Mountain | Member: | Mussentuchit |
| Local section: | Cifelli-2 | Local bed: | 22.2 m | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: A radiometric age of 98.37 ± 0.07 Ma was obtained by the OMNH from volcanic ash within the Mussentuchit Member (Cifelli and others, 1997, 1999). Additional ages by Garrison and others (2007) ranging from 96.7 ± 0.5 to 98.2 ±0.6 Ma indicate that the Mussentuchit Member was deposited over an interval of 1.5 Ma during the early Cenomanian and supports a correlation with the siliceous marine Mowry Shale to the north, which is well-constrained from 40Ar/39Ar sanidine ages obtained from bentonite beds that bracket the Mowry in Wyoming; the basal Arrow Creek Bentonite is 98.5 ± 0.5 Ma and the capping Clay Spur Bentonite is 97.2 ± 0.7 Ma (Obradovich, 1993; Ogg and Hinnov, 2012; Sprinkel and others, 2012) near the base of the Upper Cretaceous. Tucker et al. 2020 also suggested a likely depositional age of ~96-94Ma for the Musseuntuchit member. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | pebbly carbonaceous mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | channel lag |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | transgressive systems tract |
| Geology comments: a "mudflat-transgressive lag deposition system" with local conditions suggestive of lacustrine final deposition as a regressive lag | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,replaced with calcite,replaced with silica,replaced with pyrite |
| Degree of concentration: | concentrated |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taphonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | CEUM locality 42em432v, Eolambia II, Eo2 | ||
| Database number: | 73612 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-06-21 13:07:56 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-06-21 13:07:56 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 24682. | ETE | J. R. Garrison, Jr., D. B. Brinkman, D. J. Nichols, P. Layer, D. L. Burge and D. Thayn. 2007. A multidisciplinary study of the Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, Mussentuchit Wash, Utah: a determination of the paleoenvironment and paleoecology of the Eolambia caroljonesa dinosaur quarry. Cretaceous Research 28:461-494 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 78573 | A. T. McDonald, J. Bird, J. I. Kirkland and P. Dodson. 2012. Osteology of the basal hadrosauroid Eolambia caroljonesa (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Cedar Mountain Formation of Utah. PLoS One 7(10):e45712:1-38 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 59838 | J. P. Tennant, P. D. Mannion, and P. Upchurch. 2016. Evolutionary relationships and systematics of Atoposauridae (Crocodylomorpha: Neosuchia): implications for the rise of Eusuchia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177:854-936 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |