Also known as Alamosaurus type site, Bauer 67
Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.3° N, 108.0° W: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 86.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Naashoibito Member (Ojo Alamo Formation), Lancian (70.6 - 65.5 Ma)
• from lower part of layer at this site
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "channel"; concretionary, brown, white, conglomeratic sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by C. Gilmore, J. Reeside, C. H. Sternberg in 1916, 1921-1922; reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
• original collection by Gilmore in 1916, followed by main collecting by J. B. Reeside, Jr., June 1921 and additional specimens collected by C. H. Sternberg in 1922; specimens found about 200 ft apart and may represent one individual
Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1921. Discovery of sauropod dinosaur remains in the Upper Cretaceous of New Mexico. Science 54(1395):274 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 46992: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 28.01.2005