PBDB Collection

NMMNH Locality L-4010: Late Campanian, New Mexico

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes

	Chondrichthyes indet. Huxley 1880	Tanaka et al. 2011
unclassified

	Osteichthyes indet. (Huxley 1880)	Tanaka et al. 2011
Mammalia

	Mammalia indet. (Linnaeus 1758)	Tanaka et al. 2011
Reptilia - Squamata

	Squamata indet. Oppel 1811	Tanaka et al. 2011
Reptilia

	Testudinata indet. (Oppel 1811)	Tanaka et al. 2011
Reptilia - Testudines

	Testudines indet. Batsch 1788	Sullivan et al. 2012
	NMMNH P-32823 incomplete phalanx
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae

	Aspideretoides cf. robustus (Gilmore 1919)	Sullivan et al. 2012
	NMMNH P-33916 nearly complete left xiphiplastron
Reptilia - Testudines - Nanhsiungchelyidae

	Basilemys cf. gaffneyi Sullivan et al. 2012	Sullivan et al. 2012
	NMMNH P-32828 limb osteoderm
Reptilia - Testudines - Adocidae

	Adocus sp. Cope 1868	Sullivan et al. 2012
	NMMNH P-38403 entoplastron
Reptilia - Testudoolithidae

	Testudoolithus sp. Hirsch 1996	Tanaka et al. 2011	12 specimens
	NMMNH P-38474e, 38025e
Reptilia - Baenidae

	Baenidae indet. Cope 1882	Sullivan et al. 2012
	NMMNH P-38401 incomplete carapace

	Denazinemys nodosa (Gilmore 1916)	Sullivan et al. 2012
	NMMNH P-32890 incomplete carapace & fragments
Reptilia - Krokolithidae

	Krokolithidae indet. Kohring and Hirsch 1996	Tanaka et al. 2011	134 specimens
	NMMNH P-38474c, d, 38025c, d, 36532
Reptilia

	Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)	Tanaka et al. 2011
Reptilia - Prismatoolithidae

	Prismatoolithus sp. Zhao and Li 1993	Tanaka et al. 2011	2 specimens
	NMMNH P-38025f
Reptilia

	Theropoda indet. (Marsh 1881)	Tanaka et al. 2011	2 specimens
	NMMNH P-38025h
Reptilia - Tyrannosauridae

	Bistahieversor sealeyi Carr and Williamson 2010		1 specimen
	rostral ramus of a right lacrimal, NMMNH P-32824
Reptilia - Elongatoolithidae

	Continuoolithus sp. Zelenitsky et al. 1996	Tanaka et al. 2011	10 specimens
	NMMNH P-38474b, 38025b, 36526, 36530

	Porituberoolithus sp. Zelenitsky et al. 1996	Tanaka et al. 2011	819 specimens
	NMMNH P-38474a, 38025a, 36528
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae

	Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869	Sullivan and Lucas 2014	4 specimens
	NMMNH P-32803, 32810, 32840, 32843
Bivalvia - Unionida - Unionidae

	Unionidae indet. Rafinesque 1820	Tanaka et al. 2011
Gastropoda

	Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795	Tanaka et al. 2011
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	New Mexico
Coordinates:	36.3° North, 108.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	46.7° North, 71.5° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:	based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:	outcrop

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: approx. 5 m below the "Bisti Bed"

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	volcaniclastic,flat-pebble conglomerate
Secondary lithology:	planar lamination sandstone
Includes fossils?	Y
Lithology description: "an intercalated clay-pebble conglomerate and volcanic ash, in turn overlain by planar-bedded sandstone"
Environment:	coarse channel fill
Geology comments: "a well-drained upper delta plain environment" with deposit representing a channel fill.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Degree of concentration:	-bonebed
Size of fossils:	macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:	good
Fragmentation:	frequent
Spatial resolution:	allochthonous

Collection methods and comments

Collection methods:	field collection
Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:	NMMNH

Metadata

Also known as:	Hunter Wash
Database number:	96814
Authorizer:	M. Carrano, D. Nicholson	Enterer:	M. Oreska, M. Carrano, D. Nicholson
Modifier:	M. Carrano
Created:	2010-07-01 11:51:29	Last modified:	2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:	the public	Released:	2010-07-01 11:51:29
Creative Commons license:	CC0

Reference information

Primary reference:

32137.

ETE

T. D. Carr and T. E. Williamson. 2010. Bistahieversor sealeyi, gen. et sp. nov., a new tyrannosauroid from New Mexico and the origin of deep snouts in Tyrannosauroidea. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(1):1-16 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Oreska]

Secondary references:

50161		R. M. Sullivan, S. E. Jasinski, and S. G. Lucas. 2012. Re-assessment of Late Campanian (Kirtlandian) turtles from the Upper Cretaceous Fruitland and Kirtland formations, San Juan Basin, New Mexico, USA. In D. B. Brinkman, P. A. Holroyd, J. D. Gardner (eds.), Morphology and Evolution of Turtles 337-387 [D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson/P. Holroyd]
55658		R. M. Sullivan and S. G. Lucas. 2014. Stratigraphic distribution of hadrosaurids in the Upper Cretaceous Fruitland, Kirtland, and Ojo Alamo formations, San Juan Basin, New Mexico. In D. A. Eberth & D. C. Evans (ed.), Hadrosaurs 361-384 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
43253		K. Tanaka, D. K. Zelenitsky, T. E. Willamson, A. Weil, and F. Therrien. 2011. Fossil eggshells from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Fruitland Formation, New Mexico. Historical Biology 23(1):41-55 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]