Tapers Ranch Sandstone Member of Haystack Mountains Formation of Mesaverde Group (WY)
Late Cretaceous (Campanian)
Type section: NE/4 NE/4 sec. 22, NE/4 sec. 23, and SE/4 SE/4 sec. 14, T. 22 N., R. 86 W., Carbon Co., WY (Gill and others, 1970).
Green River basin
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