Where: Bowman County, North Dakota (46.2° N, 103.4° W: paleocoordinates 52.4° N, 76.2° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Hell Creek Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• This site includes the
•transition point between Cretaceous and Paleocene time and is
•thought by some authors to have fossilized traces of the
•Chicxulub impact
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: E. J. Hilton and L. Grande. 2022. Late Cretaceous sturgeons (Acipenseridae) from North America, with two new species from the Tanis site in the Hell Creek Formation of North Dakota . Journal of Paleontology [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 227364: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 08.10.2022
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Acipenser praeparatorum n. sp., Acipenser amnisinferos n. sp.
Acipenser praeparatorum n. sp. Hilton and Grande 2022 sturgeon
Acipenser amnisinferos n. sp. Hilton and Grande 2022 sturgeon |