"Sue" site (PROXY) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: South Dakota (45.1° N, 102.0° W: paleocoordinates 50.9° N, 75.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hell Creek Formation (Montana Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coarse channel fill; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S. Hendrickson, P. Larson in 1990; reposited in the FMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: J. R. Horner and D. Lessem. 1993. The Complete T. rex 1-239 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 157189: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.06.2014, edited by Patricia Holroyd

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Ornithopoda indet. Marsh 1881 ornithopod
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Edmontosaurus sp. Lambe 1917 hadrosaurine
 Theropoda - Caenagnathidae
Caenagnathus sp.1 Sternberg 1940 maniraptoran
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
? Dromaeosauridae indet. Colbert and Russell 1969 maniraptoran
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
"Tyrannosaurus imperator n. sp." = Tyrannosaurus rex3
"Tyrannosaurus imperator n. sp." = Tyrannosaurus rex3 Osborn 1905 tyrant lizard king
FMNH PR 2081 (= BHI 2033)
 Testudinata -
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle
skull
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae
Albanerpetontidae indet.2 Fox and Naylor 1982 tetrapod
uncat. FMNH specimens
 Proteida - Batrachosauroididae
Opisthotriton sp.2 Auffenberg 1961 salamander
uncat. FMNH specimens
Prodesmodon sp.2 Estes 1964 salamander
uncat. FMNH specimens
 Caudata - Urodela
Habrosaurus sp.2 Gilmore 1928 siren
uncat. FMNH specimens
Scapherpeton sp.2 Cope 1876 salamander
uncat. FMNH specimens
 Salientia -
Anura indet.2 Fischer von Waldheim 1813 frog