Vertebrate paleoecology of the late Campanian (Cretaceous) Fruitland Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico (USA)

• Autorzy: Spencer G.L. , Mateer N. J.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Sediments of the Fruitland Formation in northwestern New Mexico represent a delta plain that prograded northeastward over the retrating strandline of the North American epeiric seaway during the late Campanian. Fruitland fossil vertebrates are fishes, amphibians, lizards, a snake, turtles, crocodilians, dinosaurs (mostly hadrosaurs and ceratopsians) and mammals. Autochthonous fossils in the Fruitland Formation represent organisms of the trophically-complex Parasaurolophus community. Differences in diversity, physical stress and life-history strategies within the Parasaurolophus community fit well the stability-time hypothesis. Thus, dinosaurs experienced relatively low physical stress whereas fishes, amphibians, small reptiles and mammals experienced greater physical stress. Because of this, dinosaurs were less likely to recover from an environmental catastrophe than were smaller contemporaneous vertebrates. The terminal Cretaceous extinctions selectively eliminated animals that lived in less physically-stressed situations, indicating that the extinctions resulted from an environmental catastrophe.

• Wydawca: -
• Czasopismo: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
• Rocznik: 1983
• Tom: 28
• Numer: 1-2
• Opis fizyczny: p.195-204,fig.,ref.

Twórcy

autor

Spencer G.L.

• Department ot Geology and Geophysics and Peabody, Museum ot Natural History, Yale University, P.O. Box 6666, New Haven, Connecticut 06511 USA

autor

Mateer N. J.

• Department of Geology, McMurry Cllege, Abilene, Texas 79697 USA

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