New Mexico - US

The Late Campanian (Judithian) Fruitland Formation was named by Bauer (1916) and is at least 170m thick. It is composed of a series of complexy interbedded channel sandstones, carbonaceous gray shales and siltsones, and coalbeds that can reach thickness of 9 m and extend laterally over several kilometers. In the north, the easily recognizable persistent brown-colored ribbon sandstones mark the top of the formation, whereas in the south the stratigraphically highest, thick (>1m) coal can be used as the formational contact (Hunt, 1992). The climate of the Fruitland Formation. was warm, humid, and seasonal based on the associated fossil leaf and fossil treering evidence. The upper Fruitland and lowermost Bisti Member of the overlying Kirtland Formation constitute one of two stratigraphic intervals containing vertebrate fossils in the Fruitland-Kirtland stratigraphic sequence, theother being the Naashoibito Member of the Kirtland Formation.


Albertosaurus libratus (= Deinodon horridus) - Tyrannosaurinae Albertosaurini - Cretaceous Late Campanian Maastrichtian


Gorgosaurus libratus - Tyrannosaurinae Albertosaurini - Cretaceous Late Campanian Maastrichtian



Kritosaurus navajovius? - Hadrosaurinae Gryposaurini - Cretaceous Late Campanian Maastrichtian



Parasaurolophus cyrtoccristatus - Hadrosauridae Lambeosaurinae - Cretaceous Late Campanian



Paronychodon lacustris - Troodontidae Nomina Dubia - Cretaceous Late Campanian Maastrichtian



Pentaceratops fenestratus - Ceratopidae Chasmosaurinae - Cretaceous Late Campanian Maastrichtian



Pentaceratops sternbergii - (including Pentaceratops fenestratus) - Ceratopidae Chasmosaurinae - Cretaceous Late Campanian Maastrichtian



Stegoceras novomexicanum - Pachycephalosauria Pachycephalosauridae - Cretaceous Late Campanian



Stegoceras validum - Pachycephalosauria Pachycephalosauridae - Cretaceous Late Campanian



Titanoceratops ouranos - Ceratopidae Chasmosaurinae - Cretaceous Late Campanian



Ornithopod footprints - Ornithopoda - Cretaceous Late Campanian



?Chasmosaurus sp - Ceratopia Ceratopidae - Cretaceous Late Campanian



?Corythosaurus sp. - Ornithopoda Hadrosauridae - Cretaceous Late Campanian



Albertosaurus sp. - Theropoda Tyrannosauridae - Cretaceous Late Campanian



Ankylosaurid indet. - Ankylosauria - Cretaceous Late Campanian



Ceratopsid indet (= ? Monoclonius sp.) - Ceratopia Ceratopidae - Cretaceous Late Campanian



cf. Ornithomimus sp. - Theropoda Ornithomimidae - Cretaceous Late Campanian



Dromaeosaurid indet. - Theropoda - Cretaceous Late Campanian



Ornithomimid indet. - Theropoda Ornithomimidae - Cretaceous Late Campanian



Pachycephalosaurid indet. - Pachycephalosauria - Cretaceous Late Campanian



?Parasaurolophus sp. - Hadrosauridae Lambeosaurinae - Cretaceous Late Campanian
[NA PI.529, nearly complete right maxilla, with partial right jugal and incomplete right palatine]



Theropoda indet. - Theropoda - Cretaceous Late Campanian



Undescribed tyrannosaurid - Theropoda Tyrannosauridae - Cretaceous Late Campanian