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USGS D815 (UCMP V98173)

Garfield County, Utah
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Minerals on record here

1 mineral

Recorded here: fossil.

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About USGS D815 (UCMP V98173)

USGS D815 (UCMP V98173) is a fossil collection site in Garfield, Utah, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. Fossils here come from the Wahweap Formation, dated to the Early Campanian to Middle Campanian (83.6–72.2 million years ago). The depositional environment is recorded as fluvial indet. Documented finds include Adelolophus hutchisoni, Acipenseriformes, Melvius chauliodous, Lepisosteidae, Arvinachelys, Denazinemys nodosa.

Geologic setting

Formation
Wahweap
Geologic interval
Early Campanian to Middle Campanian
Age
83.6–72.2 Ma
Depositional environment
fluvial indet.
Recorded occurrences
14
Locality notes

published on Zeller, H.D. 1973. Geologic Map and Coal Resources of the Death Ridge Quadrangle, Garfield and Kane Counties, Utah. Coal Investigations Map C-58. U.S. Geological Survey, Washington, D.C.

Fossils found here

Adelolophus hutchisoni
Ornithischia · Hadrosauridae
Acipenseriformes
Osteichthyes
Melvius chauliodous
Osteichthyes · Amiidae
Lepisosteidae
Osteichthyes · Lepisosteidae
Arvinachelys
Reptilia · Baenidae
Denazinemys nodosa
Reptilia · Baenidae
Neurankylus
Reptilia · Baenidae
Baenidae
Reptilia · Baenidae
Basilemys
Reptilia · Nanhsiungchelyidae
Trionychidae
Reptilia · Trionychidae
Hadrosauridae
Ornithischia · Hadrosauridae
Tyrannosauridae
Reptilia · Tyrannosauridae
Theropoda
Reptilia
Mesoeucrocodylia
Reptilia

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 167916 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record

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Can you collect at USGS D815 (UCMP V98173)?

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What minerals are found at USGS D815 (UCMP V98173)?

Fossil.

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Source: Paleobiology Database.