Gryposaurus monumentensis type, GS-ENM (PROXY): Late/Upper Campanian, Utah
collected 2004
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Gryposaurus sp.
Lambe 1914
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| RAM 6797 (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
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= Gryposaurus monumentensis n. sp.
Gates and Sampson 2007
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Gates and Sampson 2007 | |||||||||
| RAM 6797 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Utah | County: | Garfield |
| Coordinates: | 37.6° North, 111.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 45.6° North, 83.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Altitude: | 6985 feet | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
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: | Kaiparowits | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: middle part of formation | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | muddy sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "muddy sand" | |
| Environment: | channel lag |
| Geology comments: "point bar deposit" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Associated major elements: | all |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | mechanical,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | 2004 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 75467 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-10-10 12:18:59 | Last modified: | 2023-11-21 09:51:30 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-10-10 12:18:59 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 84665. | A. L. Titus, J. D. Powell, E. M. Roberts, S. D. Sampson, S. L. Pollock, J. I. Kirkland, and L. B. Albright. 2005. Late Cretaceous stratigraphy, depositional environments, and macrovertebrate paleontology of the Kaiparowits Plateau, Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, Utah. In J. Pederson & C. M. Dehler (ed.), Interior Western United States. Geological Society of America Field Guide 6:101-128 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 86538 | T. A. Gates, E. K. Lund, M. A. Getty, J. L. Kirkland, A. L. Titus and D. D. DeBlieux. 2010. Late Cretaceous ornithopod dinosaurs from the Kaiparowits Plateau, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah. Learning from the Land: Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Science Symposium Proceedings 159-172 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 85381 | T. A. Gates, E. K. Lund, D. B. DeBlieux, A. L. Titus, D. C. Evans, M. A. Getty, J. I. Kirkland and J. G. Eaton. 2013. Ornithopod dinosaurs from the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument region, Utah, and their role in paleobiogeographic and macroevolutionary studies. In A. L. Titus & M. A. Loewen (ed.), At the Top of the Grand Staircase: The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah 463-481 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 25465 | ETE | T. A. Gates and S. D. Sampson. 2007. A new species of Gryposaurus (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae) from the late Campanian Kaiparowits Formation, southern Utah, USA. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 151:351-376 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 32772 | ETE | A. Prieto-Marquez. 2010. The braincase and skull of Gryposaurus notabilis (Dinosauria, Hadrosauridae), with a taxonomic revision of the genus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(3):838-854 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |