Genus: Melvius BRYANT, 1987
Etymology: Melvius, after the first name of Mr. Melvin Thomas of Garfield County, Montana.

Species: thomasi BRYANT, 1987
Etymology: In honor of Mr. Melvin Thomas, Garfield County, Montana, in gratitude for his generous assistance to UCMP field crews.

Holotype: UCMP 129600

Locality: UCMP V83117, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material: Right maxilla and operculum, left angular, fragments of right cleithrum, anterior right and left dentary, left ?premaxilla, left angular, post-temporal, and infraorbital, tooth crowns, 4 trunk and 6 caudal vertebrae, neural spines, lepidotrichia, and associated fragments of dermal bone.

Hypodigm:

 

Locality: UCMP V70208, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 129904: Right frontal fragment.

 

 

Locality: UCMP V73077, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 120026: Tooth crowns.

 

 

Locality: UCMP V73085, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 129673: Trunk vertebra.

UCMP 120323: Tooth crowns.

 

Locality: UCMP V73087, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 123289: 150+ tooth drowns.

UCMP 130386: Dentary fragment.

 

 

Locality: UCMP V73090, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 123381: Trunk vertebra.

 

Locality: UCMP V73103, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 128813: Tooth crown.

 

Locality: UCMP V74116, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 128852: Tooth crowns.

 

Locality: UCMP V74117, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 128894: Tooth crowns.

 

 

Locality: UCMP V76138, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 129677: 2 trunk vertebrae, 1 caudal vertebra.

UCMP 129675: Right maxilla fragments.

UCMP 129674: Tooth crown and operclum fragment.

UCMP 129676: Tooth crown.

 

 

Locality: UCMP V76162, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 129912: Maxillary fragment and tooth crown.

 

 

Locality: UCMP V77121, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 130665: Vertebra.

 

 

Locality: UCMP V77119, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 130287: Tooth crown.

 

Locality: UCMP V78143, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation, Late Maastrichtian, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 129905: Dermal bone fragments.

 

Locality: UCMP V80088, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 129678: 2 tooth crowns.

 

Locality: UCMP V80097, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 129679: Trunk vertebra.

 

Locality: UCMP V80092, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 129906: Vertebra fragment.

UCMP 129907: Tooth crown.

UCMP 129908: Post-temporal fragment.

 

Locality: UCMP V80119, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 130288: Tooth crown.

 

Locality: UCMP V81159, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 129680: 3 caudal vertebrae.

UCMP 129681: Fragments of operculum, post-temporals, ?parietal and other fragments of dermal bones, and fin rays.

UCMP 120287: Vertebra, post-temporal, and other fragments.

 

Locality: UCMP V81257, Garfield County, Montana.

 

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 129909: Dermal bone fragment.

UCMP 129910: Vertebra.

 

Locality: UCMP V81258, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 129911: Vertebra.

 

Locality: UCMP V82210, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 130088: Tooth crown.

 

Locality: UCMP V82013, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 129682: 7 tooth crowns.

 

Locality: UCMP V82060, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 129683: Anterior left maxilla, 2 trunk vertebra and 1 fragment, lepidotrichia and dermal bone fragments.

UCMP 129912: Dermal bone fragments.

UCMP 129913: ?parietal fragment.

UCMP 120089: Maxillary fragment.

 

Locality: UCMP V83024, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 129915: Vertebra.

 

 

Locality: UCMP V883604, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 129916: Dermal bone fragment.

 

Locality: UCMP V82077, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 129684: Trunk vertebra fragment.

UCMP 129917: Dermal bone fragments.

 

Locality: UCMP V83100, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 129601: Nearly complete left cleithrum and infraorbital, fragments of ceratohyal.

 

Locality: UCMP V83104, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 129602: Trunk vertebra.

 

 

 

Locality: UCMP V83130, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 129877: Caudal vertebra.

 

Locality: UCMP V83254, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 129685: Trunk vertebra.

 

 

Locality: UCMP V84002, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 128686: Trunk vertebra.

 

 

Locality: UCMP V84003, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 129687: Caudal vertebra.

 

 

Locality: UCMP V84050, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 129682: Left frontal, fragments of post-temporal, ?parietal, and other skull bones, and trunk vertebrae.

 

Locality: UCMP V84128, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 129876: Trunk vertebrae, premaxilla, “parietal, preopercular, other skull fragments, and lepidotrichia.

 

 

Locality: UCMP V84130, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 129878: Posterior trunk vertebra.

 

Locality: UCMP V84171, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 130147: Vertebra and tooth crown.

 

 

 

Locality: UCMP V84182, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 130289: Anterior trunk vertebra.

 

Locality: UCMP V84225, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 130144: 3 vertebrae, vertebra fragments and fin support.

UCMP 130145: Basiocipital and 3 vertebrae.

 

 

Locality: UCMP V84227, Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 130146: 2 vertebrae, fin support and skull fragments.

 

 

Locality: Garfield County, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

AMNH 6385: Anterior trunk vertebra.

AMNH 11600: Tooth crowns.

 

AMNH 11604: Opercular fragment.

LACM 37887, 30783, 30412, 126131: Vertebrae.

LACM 30412: Right dentary, 5 vertebrae, tooth crowns, basicranium and angular fragments.

LACM 37218: Opercular fragment.

 

 

 

Locality: Bug Creek Anthills, Montana.

Horizon: Upper Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 129671: Trunk vertebra.

 

 

Locality: UCMP V5618, Wyoming.

Horizon: Lance Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 72700: Post-temporal.

 

 

Locality: UCMP V5620, Wyoming.

Horizon: Lance Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 54156, 56277: Trunk vertebrae.

UCMP 72467: Tooth crown.

 

Locality: UCMP V5711, Wyoming.

Horizon: Lance Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 56276: Vertebra fragment.

UCMP 72470: Vertebra fragment.

UCMP 72688: Toth crowns.

 

 

Locality: UCMP V5815, Wyoming.

Horizon: Lance Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 72647: Vertebra.

 

Locality: UCMP V5817, Wyoming.

Horizon: Lance Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 62936: Vertebra.

 

Locality: UCMP V5921, Wyoming.

Horizon: Lance Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 72469: Anterior left maxilla fragment.

 

Locality: UCMP V84216, Wyoming.

Horizon: Lance Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 129951, 129952: Vertebrae.

 

Locality: UW V79032, Wyoming.

Horizon: Lance Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UW 14276: Right maxilla.

UW 14621: Right maxilla fragment.

UW 14619: Left maxillary fragment.

UW 14618: Anterior right maxilla fragment.

UW 14623: Trunk vertebrae.

UW 14622: 4 caudal vertebrae.

UW 14620: Left maxilla fragment.

 

 

Locality: Wyoming.

Horizon: Lance Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

CM 256: Trunk vertebrae.

YPM 6311: Trunk vertebrae.

 

 

Locality: North Dakota.

Horizon: Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 131681: Right dentary fragment.

UCMP 131707: Right ?parietal.

UCMP 131708: Skull fragments.

 

Locality: South Dakota.

Horizon: Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

SDSM 64210: Anterior trunk vertebra

 

SDSM 64289, 64314, 64333, 64344, 64362: Tooth crowns.

 

 

Locality: New Mexico.

Horizon: Fruitland Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Campanian Stage, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

MNA P1.809: 24 associated vertebrae and neural spines.

 

Locality: New Mexico.

Horizon: Fruitland Formation or Kirkland Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Campanian-Maastrichtian Stage, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

 

UNM B466, B-691, B-406A, B-415, B0437, B-699, B-704, B-094, B-165a, B-165, B0443: Vertebrae.

UNM B-5406: ?parietal.

 

 

Locality: New Mexico.

Horizon: Kirkland Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

LACM 55081, 55083, 55084, 55985: Vertebra fragments.

 

Locality: Montana

Horizon: Judith River Formation, Judith River Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Campanian Stage, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCMP 130632: Anterior trunk vertebrae.

 

Locality: Utah.

Horizon: Masuk Shale Member, Mancos Shale.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UCM specimens: Vertebrae and tooth crowns.

 

HOGANSON & MURPHY, 2002

Locality: Stumpf Composite, ND99-15, SE ¼, SW ¼, sec. 34, T13N, R79W, Morton County, North Dakota.

Horizon: Breien Member, Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

ND 95-15.7: Tooth.

 

HOLYROD & HUTCHISON, 2002

Locality: V 86065, western North Dakota.

Horizon: Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

172110:

 

Locality: V 86100, western North Dakota.

Horizon: Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

172159:

 

Locality: V 86101, western North Dakota.

Horizon: Hell Creek Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

172160, 172359:

 

HUNT & LUCAS, 1993

Locality: San Juan County, New Mexico.

Horizon: Bisti, Hunter Wash, Farmingotn and De-na-zin Members, Lower Kirtland Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

Number: Not given:

 

SULLIVAN, JASINSKI & WILLIAMSON, 2023 (published 2024)

Locality: North of Arroyo Pueblo Alto, McKinley County, New Mexico.

Horizon: Hunter Wash Member, Kirtland Formation.

Biostratigraphy: Kirtlandian land Vertebrate age.

Age: Late Campanian Stage, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

NMNH P-88899: Skull roof, palate, adn braincase, both premaxillae, both frontals, both parietals, both dermopterotics, vomers, right dermosphenotic, prootics, intercalars, basioccipital/occipital condyle, associated with 5 large abdominal centra.

NMMNH P-88901: Nearly complete right frontal, associated with 1 complete abdominal centra dn 1 incomplete anterior abdominal centrum.

TOKARYK, 1997

Locality: Saskatchewan.

Horizon: Frenchman Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

P 2607.1: Dentary and vertebra.

 

WHITMORE, 1988

SDSM 12726

Locality: SDSM locality V851, Zerbst Locality, Niobrara County, Wyoming.

Horizon: Lance Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

SDSM 12716: 3 vertebral fragments.

 

 

Locality: SDSM locality V852, Hanson Locality, Niobrara County, Wyoming.

Horizon: Lance Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

SDSM 12727: 2 vertebral fragments.

 

 

Locality: SDSM locality V853, Leonard’s Lizard Site, Niobrara County, Wyoming.

Horizon: Lance Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lancian age, Late Maastrichtian Stage, Late Senonian Subepoch, Late Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

SDSM 12728: 1 vertebra.

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Species: chauliodous (HALL & WOLBERG, 1989)
Etymology:
= Amia? chauliodous HALL & WOLBERG, 1989

Holotype: KUVP 88378

Locality: Fossil Forest area south of Farmington and north of Chaco Canyon in portions of sectiosn 13, 14, 23, and 24, T23N, R12W, New Mexico.

Horizon: Fruitland Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Campanian Stage, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material: An incomplete, disarticulated skeleton from an individual with an estimated standard length greater than two meters.

Paratype: KUVP 14241: A partial right maxilla.

Referred material:

SULLIVAN, 2006, SULLIVAN, LUCAS & JASINSKI, 2011

Locality: Denver's Blowout, SMP locality 281, Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness Study Area, San Juan Basin, New Mexico.

Horizon: Hunter Wash Member, Kirtland Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Kirtlandian age, Upper Campanian Stage- Lower Maastrichtian Stage, Senonian subepoch, Upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

SMP VP-1485: Incomplete skull and lower jaws.

 

Locality: Ah-shi-sle-pah Wash (east), SMP Locality 365, Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness Study Area, San Juan Basin, New Mexico.

Horizon: Hunter Wash Member, Kirtland Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Kirtlandian age, Upper Campanian Stage- Lower Maastrichtian Stage, Senonian subepoch, Upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

SMP VP-1086: Centrum.