NMMNH Locality L-4010: Late/Upper Campanian, New Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Cuvier 1795
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Tanaka et al. 2011 | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Unionida
- Unionidae
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Unionidae indet.
Rafinesque 1820
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Tanaka et al. 2011 | |||||||||
unclassified
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Osteichthyes indet.
(Huxley 1880)
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Tanaka et al. 2011 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Squamata
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Squamata indet.
Oppel 1811
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Tanaka et al. 2011 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Testudinata indet.
(Oppel 1811)
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Tanaka et al. 2011 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Baenidae
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Baenidae indet.
Cope 1882
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Sullivan et al. 2012 | |||||||||
NMMNH P-38401 incomplete carapace | ||||||||||
Denazinemys nodosa
(Gilmore 1916)
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Sullivan et al. 2012 | |||||||||
NMMNH P-32890 incomplete carapace & fragments | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
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Testudines indet.
Batsch 1788
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NMMNH P-32823 incomplete phalanx | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Nanhsiungchelyidae
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Basilemys cf. gaffneyi
Sullivan et al. 2012
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NMMNH P-32828 limb osteoderm | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Aspideretoides cf. robustus
(Gilmore 1919)
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Sullivan et al. 2012 | |||||||||
recombined as Trionyx robustus | ||||||||||
NMMNH P-33916 nearly complete left xiphiplastron | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Adocidae
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Adocus sp.
Cope 1868
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NMMNH P-38403 entoplastron | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudoolithidae
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Testudoolithus sp.
Hirsch 1996
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Tanaka et al. 2011 | 12 specimens | ||||||||
NMMNH P-38474e, 38025e | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Theropoda indet.
(Marsh 1881)
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Tanaka et al. 2011 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
NMMNH P-38025h | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Elongatoolithidae
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Porituberoolithus sp.
Zelenitsky et al. 1996
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Tanaka et al. 2011 | 819 specimens | ||||||||
NMMNH P-38474a, 38025a, 36528 | ||||||||||
Continuoolithus sp.
Zelenitsky et al. 1996
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Tanaka et al. 2011 | 10 specimens | ||||||||
NMMNH P-38474b, 38025b, 36526, 36530 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Bistahieversor sealeyi
Carr and Williamson 2010
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1 specimen | |||||||||
rostral ramus of a right lacrimal, NMMNH P-32824 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Hadrosauridae indet.
Cope 1869
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Sullivan and Lucas 2014 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
NMMNH P-32803, 32810, 32840, 32843 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Prismatoolithidae
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Prismatoolithus sp.
Zhao and Li 1993
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Tanaka et al. 2011 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
NMMNH P-38025f | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Krokolithidae
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Krokolithidae indet.
Kohring and Hirsch 1996
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Tanaka et al. 2011 | 134 specimens | ||||||||
NMMNH P-38474c, d, 38025c, d, 36532 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Crocodylia indet.
(Owen 1842)
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Mammalia
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Mammalia indet.
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Chondrichthyes
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Chondrichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | New Mexico |
Coordinates: | 36.3° North, 108.5° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 43.6° North, 79.9° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Campanian | ||
Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 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: | 2015-08-11 15:42:03 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-07-01 11:51:29 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
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] |