ammonites
Coal Creek (USGS) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: San Juan County, New Mexico (36.3° N, 108.0° W: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 79.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fruitland/Kirtland Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• formation not named

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Gardner in 1908; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1916. Contributions to the geology and paleontology of San Juan County, New Mexico. 2. Vertebrate faunas of the Ojo Alamo, Kirtland and Fruitland Formations. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 98-Q:279-302 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 62533: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 21.07.2006