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Kirtland - Farmington, San Juan County, New Mexico, USA

Formation	Kirtland
Member	Farmington
Age:	83.5 - 70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Interval	Late Campanian
Lithology	sandstone
Number of Collections	6
Number of Occurrences	13

Recorded Sample Locations

Location	Region	Stratigraphic Name
UNM 77-591	San Juan County, New Mexico, USA	Kirtland - Farmington
Pina Veta China	San Juan County, New Mexico, USA	Kirtland - Farmington
NMMNH Loc. 1722	San Juan County, New Mexico, USA	Kirtland - Farmington
View Point	San Juan County, New Mexico, USA	Kirtland - Farmington
UTEP Loc. 2	San Juan County, New Mexico, USA	Kirtland - Farmington

Associated Units

Stratigraphic Name	Age	Lithology	Occurrence Records
Fruitland/Kirtland	83.5 - 70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	shale, sandstone, "siliciclastic"	354
Kirtland - De-na-zin	83.5 - 70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	shale/sandstone, "siliciclastic", sandstone, conglomerate, siltstone, mudstone, "shale"	155
Kirtland - Hunter Wash	83.5 - 70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	siliciclastic, mudstone, "shale"	234
Ojo Alamo - Naashoibito	70.6 - 66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	sandstone, mudstone	159

Recorded Fossils

Accepted Name	Type	Hierarchy	Age
Melvius sp. genus	6	Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Amiiformes : Amiidae : *Melvius*	83.5 - 70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Alphadon sp. genus	6	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Didelphimorphia : Didelphidae : *Alphadon*	83.5 - 70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Multituberculata order	4	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Multituberculata	83.5 - 70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Anasazisaurus horneri species	7	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Hadrosauridae : Anasazisaurus : *Anasazisaurus horneri*	83.5 - 70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Hadrosauridae family	5	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Hadrosauridae	83.5 - 70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Dinosauria order	4	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria	83.5 - 70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Testudines order	4	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines	83.5 - 70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Adocus sp. genus	6	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Adocidae : *Adocus*	83.5 - 70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Denazinemys nodosa species	7	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Baenidae : Denazinemys : *Denazinemys nodosa*	83.5 - 70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Tyrannosauroidea superfamily	4.7	Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Avetheropoda : Chingkankousaurus : Tyrannosauroidea	83.5 - 70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Dromaeosauridae family	5	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Dromaeosauridae	83.5 - 70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Struthiomimus altus species	7	Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Avetheropoda : Ornithomimidae : Struthiomimus : *Struthiomimus altus*	83.5 - 70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous

References

Gilmore C. W. (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

Gilmore C. W. (1920) Osteology of the carnivorous Dinosauria in the United States National Museum, with special reference to the genera Antrodemus (Allosaurus) and Ceratosaurus, Bulletin of the United States National Museum 110, 1-154

Kues B. S., Froehlich J. W., et al (1977) Paleontological survey, resource assessment, and mitigation plan for the Bisti-Star Lake Area, northwestern New Mexico, Report to the Bureau of Land Management, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Lucas S. G., Mateer N. J., et al (1987) Dinosaurs, the age of the Fruitland and Kirtland Formations, and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the San Juan Basin, New Mexico, J. E. Fassett and J. K. Rigby, Jr. (eds.), The Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the San Juan and Raton Basins, New Mexico and Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 209, 35-50

Hunt A. P., Lucas S. G. (1993) Cretaceous vertebrates of New Mexico, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 2, 77-91

Lucas S. G., Sullivan R. M. (2000) Stratigraphy and vertebrate biostratigraphy across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, Betonnie Tsosie Wash, San Juan Basin, New Mexico, Dinosaurs of New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 17, 95-104

Sullivan R. M., Jasinski S. E., et al (2012) Re-assessment of Late Campanian (Kirtlandian) turtles from the Upper Cretaceous Fruitland and Kirtland formations, San Juan Basin, New Mexico, USA, Morphology and Evolution of Turtles, 337-387 doi:10.1007/978-94-007-4309-0_20

Williamson T. E., Brusatte S. L. (2014) Small theropod teeth from the Late Cretaceous of the San Juan Basin, northwestern New Mexico and their implications for understanding latest Cretaceous dinosaur evolution, PLoS ONE 9 4, e93190:1-23 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0093190

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