Menefee Formation

Menefee Formation
Stratigraphic range: Early Campanian
Type Geological formation
Sub-units Cleary Coal Member, Allison Member
Underlies Cliff House Sandstone
Overlies Point Lookout Sandstone
Location
Region  New Mexico
Country  United States

The Menefee Formation is a Campanian geologic formation of New Mexico, United States.

Vertebrate fauna

Several vertebrates have been recovered from the Menefee Formation, including intermediate remains of baenids, trionychids, hadrosaurids and dromeaosaurids. An unnamed centrosaurine ceratopsid is also known.[1]

Dinosaurs reported from the Menefee Formation
Genus Species Stratigraphic position Material Notes Images
Dynamoterror[2]

D. dynastes
  • Allison Member

"left and right frontals, four fragmentary vertebral centra, dorsal rib fragments"[2]

A tyrannosaurinae
Invictarx[3]

I. zephyri
  • Allison Member

"incomplete postcranial skeleton"

A nodosaurid
Crocodilians reported from the Menefee Formation
Genus Species Stratigraphic position Material Notes Images
Brachychampsa[4]

B. sealeyi
  • Allison Member

"partial skull, associated partial mandible, and a dorsal osteoderm"

An alligatoroid

See also

References

  1. ↑ Williamson TE. 1997. A new Late Cretaceous (early Campanian) vertebrate fauna from the Allison Member, Menefee Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico. In: Lucas SG, Estep JW, Williamson TE, Morgan GS, eds. New Mexico’s Fossil Record 1. Albuquerque: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 11. 51-59.
  2. 1 2 McDonald, A.T.; Wolfe, D.G.; Dooley Jr, A.C. (2018). "A new tyrannosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous Menefee Formation of New Mexico". PeerJ: 6:e5749. doi:10.7717/peerj.5749.
  3. ↑ McDonald AT, Wolfe DG. (2018) A new nodosaurid ankylosaur (Dinosauria: Thyreophora) from the Upper Cretaceous Menefee Formation of New Mexico. PeerJ 6:e5435 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5435.
  4. ↑ Williamson TE. 1996. Brachychampsa sealeyi, sp. nov., (Crocodylia, Alligatoroidea) from the Upper Cretaceous (lower Campanian) Menefee Formation, northwestern New Mexico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16(3):421-431.

Bibliography

  • Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp.  ISBN 0-520-24209-2.


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