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Kirtland Formation
Stratigraphic range: Campanian (typically Kirtlandian)
75–73.5 Ma
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Kirtland Formation at its type location south of Kirtland, New Mexico
TypeGeological formation
Sub-unitsHunter Wash, Farmington and De-na-zin Members
UnderliesOjo Alamo Formation
OverliesFruitland Formation
Thickness594 m (1,949 ft)
Lithology
PrimarySandstone
OtherShale, mudstone, conglomerate
Location
Coordinates36°42′29″N 108°21′00″W / 36.708°N 108.350°W / 36.708; -108.350
Approximate paleocoordinates42°36′N 76°18′W / 42.6°N 76.3°W / 42.6; -76.3
RegionKirtland Formation New Mexico
CountryKirtland Formation USA
ExtentSan Juan Basin
Type section
Named forKirtland Post Office
Named byC.M. Bauer
Year defined1916
Kirtland Formation is located in the United States
Kirtland Formation
Kirtland Formation (the United States)
Kirtland Formation is located in New Mexico
Kirtland Formation
Kirtland Formation (New Mexico)
Kirtland Formation outcrops near Coal Creek

The Kirtland Formation (originally the Kirtland Shale) is a sedimentary geological formation.[1]

  1. ^ Sullivan & Lucas 2006.

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record. The lower Naashoibito member (sometimes considered part of the Kirtland Formation) was deposited during the Maastrichtian age of the Cretaceous period...

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by the Pictured Cliffs Sandstone, and overlain by the more recent Kirtland Formation. The sequence of rocks represents the final filling of the Cretaceous...

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Ahshislepelta

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Campanian stage, 74.5 Ma) in what is now the Hunter Wash Member of the Kirtland Formation. The type and only species, Ahshislepelta minor, is known only from...

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unidentified (possibly theropod) footprints in the Middle-Late Triassic Pekin Formation of North Carolina. However, the most reliable early record of North American...

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Titanoceratops

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either the upper Fruitland Formation or the lower Kirtland Formation. The original quarry is lost, so it is not known which formation the fossil was excavated...

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Parasaurolophus

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found in either the top of the Fruitland Formation or, more likely, the base of the overlying Kirtland Formation. The range of this species was described...

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Nodocephalosaurus

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stage, 73.49 to 73.04 Ma) in what is now the De-na-zin member of the Kirtland Formation. The type and only species, Nodocephalosaurus kirtlandensis, is known...

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Alamosaurus

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Naashoibito Member of the Ojo Alamo Formation (or Kirtland Formation under a different definition) of New Mexico. This formation was deposited during the Maastrichtian...

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Navajoceratops

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skull. It was discovered in the Campanian Hunter Wash Member of the Kirtland Formation, New Mexico. It was informally named in 2016. Navajoceratops was a...

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Pentaceratops

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76–73 million years ago, its remains having been mostly found in the Kirtland Formation in the San Juan Basin in New Mexico. About a dozen skulls and skeletons...

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Anasazisaurus

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Late Cretaceous Period. It was found in the Farmington Member of the Kirtland Formation, in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico, United States. Only a partial...

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fossil material from the upper Campanian De-na-zin Member of the Kirtland Formation (New Mexico, United States) is described by Funston, Williamson &...

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Bisticeratops

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genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsian from outcrops of the Campanian age Kirtland Formation found in the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness in northwestern New Mexico...

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Kirtland Temple

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Bistahieversor

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Wash Member of the Kirtland Formation, while other specimens came from the underlying Fossil Forest member of the Fruitland Formation. This dates Bistahieversor...

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Kirtland Air Force Base

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Kirtland Air Force Base (IATA: ABQ, ICAO: KABQ) is a United States Air Force base. It is located in the southeast quadrant of the Albuquerque, New Mexico...

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Navajodactylus

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discovered and collected by oceanographer Arjan C. Boeré from the Kirtland Formation in 2002. Navajodactylus was first named by Robert M. Sullivan and...

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Dinosaur paleobiogeography

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upper 40 feet of the Fruitland Formation and the lower 55 feet of the lower shale of the Kirtland Shale (now a formation) in Hunter Wash (member)." The...

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List of stratigraphic units with dinosaur body fossils

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Infection

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Acrocanthosaurus, Allosaurus, Tyrannosaurus and a tyrannosaur from the Kirtland Formation. The infections from both tyrannosaurs were received by being bitten...

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Saurornitholestes

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List of vertebrate fauna of the Campanian stage

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Stegoceras

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from the Dinosaur Park Formation and the Oldman Formation, whereas S. novomexicanum is from the Fruitland and Kirtland Formation. The first known remains...

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Kritosaurus

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what is now known as the late Campanian-age De-na-zin Member of the Kirtland Formation. When discovered, much of the front of the skull had either eroded...

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