Stratigraphy, paleontology and age of the Fruitland and Kirtland Formations (upper Cretaceous), San Juan Basin, New Mexico
Hunt, A. P.
Lucas, S. G.
6224G
Linnaeus, 1758
Linnaeus
1758
[1238,1400,409,441]
Mammalia
GBIF
Animalia
16
231
Chordata
class
Mammalian fossils were firstrecovered from theFruitland Formation by W. A. Clemens in the 1960 s( Clemens, 1973). From themid-1970s to the mid-1980s large-scale screenwashingwas carried out by E. H. Lindsay( University of Arizona), D. L. Wolberg ( New MexicoBureau of Mines and MineralResources) and J. K. RigbyJr. (formerly of the U.S. Bureau ofLand Managementand now atNotre Dame University). Themajority ofthese collections havenot been described, notablythe Universityof Kansas specimens collected byClemensand the nontherians from the Fossil Forest areaunder studyby Wolbergand Rigby. Flynn (1986)described the more limited collections from the Universityof Arizona, and Rigbyand Wolberg(1987) studiedthe therianmammals from the Fossil Forest area.