NMMNH L-4669, Adobe Canyon: Late/Upper Campanian, Arizona
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Mesolanites sp.
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Bivalvia
- Unionida
- Unionidae
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Plesielliptio sp.
(Russell 1934)
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| original and current combination Elliptio (Plesielliptio) | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Ceratopsidae
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Centrosaurinae indet.
Lambe 1915
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1 individual | |||||||||
| NMMNH P-34906 | ||||||||||
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= Crittendenceratops krzyzanowskii n. gen., n. sp.
Dalman et al. 2018
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Dalman et al. 2018 | |||||||||
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Crittendenceratops krzyzanowskii n. gen., n. sp.
Dalman et al. 2018
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Dalman et al. 2018 | 7 specimens | ||||||||
| ASDM 380, ASDM 884, ADSM 1133, ADSM 1138, ASDM 1935, SDM 1975, ASDM 1981 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Arizona | County: | Santa Cruz |
| Coordinates: | 31.7° North, 110.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.7° North, 84.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| 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: | Fort Crittenden | Member: | "shale" |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | mudstone |
| Secondary lithology: | siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "fine-grained strata, principally mudrocks and silty mudrocks, are interbedded, repetitively, with subordinate amounts of siltstone and mudstone." | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | NMMNH |
Metadata
| Database number: | 68256 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, G. Lloyd | Enterer: | M. Carrano, G. Lloyd | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-01-11 13:33:38 | Last modified: | 2007-01-11 15:33:38 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-01-11 13:33:27 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 19634. | ETE | A. B. Heckert, S. G. Lucas, and S. E. Krzyzanowski. 2003. Vertebrate fauna of the late Campanian (Judithian) Fort Crittenden Formation, and the age of Cretaceous vertebrate faunas of southeastern Arizona (U.S.A.). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 227(3):343-364 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 67323 | S. G. Dalman, J.-P. M. Hodnett, A. J. Lichtig and S. G. Lucas. 2018. A new ceratopsid dinosaur (Centrosaurinae: Nasutoceratopsini) from the Fort Crittenden Formation, Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) of Arizona. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 79:141-164 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd] |