SMP Loc. 419, Alamo Mesa SE (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Bisti/De-na-zin Wilderness

Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.3° N, 108.1° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 46.6° N, 71.0° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hunter Wash Member (Kirtland Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.6 - 72.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by R. Sullivan in 2006

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: R. M. Sullivan, S. G. Lucas, S. E. Jasinski and D. H. Tanke. 2011. An unusual sacral neural spine osteopathy of a chasmosaurine (Dinosauria: Ceratopsidae) from the Upper Cretaceous Kirtland Formation (Hunter Wash Member), San Juan Basin, New Mexico. In R. M. Sullivan, S. G. Lucas & J. A. Spielmann (eds.), Fossil Record 3. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 53:484-488 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138832: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 29.01.2013, edited by David Nicholson

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Chasmosaurinae indet. Lambe 1915 ceratopsid
SMP VP-2083; sacrum with pathology
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet.2 Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
SMP VP-1972, 1973, 1975, 1987, 2012
 Crocodylia -
Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842 crocodilian
 Testudinata - Baenidae
Denazinemys nodosa1 Gilmore 1916 turtle
Actinopteri
 Amiiformes - Amiidae
Melvius sp. Bryant 1988 bowfin