Coal Creek [USGS]: Late Campanian, New Mexico
collected by J. H. Gardner 1908
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Tyrannosauridae
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Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Reptilia
- Ceratopsidae
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Reptilia
- Crocodilia
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Crocodilia indet.
Owen 1842
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Aspideretes sp.
Hay 1904
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New Mexico | County: | San Juan |
| Coordinates: | 36.3° North, 108.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 46.6° North, 70.9° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Altitude: | 1944 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
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/Kirtland | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: formation not named | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "siliciclastic" |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | all |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | USNM | ||
| Collectors: | J. H. Gardner | Collection dates: | 1908 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Ojo Alamo | ||
| Database number: | 62533 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-07-21 07:43:17 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-07-21 07:43:17 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 46330. | F. H. Knowlton. 1909. The stratigraphic relations and paleontology of the "Hell Creek beds," Ceratops beds" and equivalents, and their reference to the Fort Union Formation. Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences 11(3):179-238 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 18036 | ETE | C. W. Gilmore. 1916. Contributions to the geology and paleontology of San Juan County, New Mexico. 2. Vertebrate faunas of the Ojo Alamo, Kirtland and Fruitland Formations. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 98-Q:279-302 [M. Carrano/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] |