A Late Cretaceous Mosasaur from North-Central New Mexico
- ASU Author/Contributor (non-ASU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Andrew B. Heckert Ph.D., Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- Appalachian State University (ASU )
- Web Site: https://library.appstate.edu/
Abstract: We describe a partial vertebral column of a mosasaur identified as cf. Tylosaurus sp. from the lower
Niobrara interval of the Mancos Shale south of Galisteo in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. Invertebrate fossils
collected from the same horizon include the inoceramids cf. Inoceramus (Cremnoceramus) deformis and cf.
Inoceramus (Platyceramus ) platinus and dense growths of the oyster Pseudoperna congesta. They suggest a
Coniacian age. This is the oldest documented mosasaur from New Mexico.
A Late Cretaceous Mosasaur from North-Central New Mexico
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Lucas, S.G., Heckert, A.B., and Kues, B.S. (1995), A late Cretaceous mosasaur from north-central New Mexico. New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook 46, p. 257-60. Archived in NCDOCKS with permission of the editor. Version of record available at: http://nmgs.nmt.edu/publications/guidebooks/46/
- Language: English
- Date: 1995