Bob's Vacation Site (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as MOR TM-088

Where: Glacier County, Montana (48.7° N, 113.0° W: paleocoordinates 56.4° N, 79.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Two Medicine Formation (Montana Group), Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• 75-76 mya, middle of formation (not "middle member")

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; silty claystone

• "only very ephemeral water... small floodplain depression, possibly a vernal pool"
• "silty claystone"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 1990 - 1993

Primary reference: D. J. Varricchio. 2002. A new bird from the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Montana. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 39(1):19-26 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 25658: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 19.09.2002, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
"terrestrial planispiral gastropods"
Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Marsupialia
Marsupialia indet. marsupial
teeth
 Allotheria -
Multituberculata indet. Cope 1884 multituberculate
teeth
Reptilia
 Squamata -
Squamata indet. squamates
"elements"
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
teeth
 Ornithischia -
Orodromeus makelai Horner and Weishampel 1988 ornithopod
"elements"
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
Nodosauridae indet. Marsh 1890 ankylosaur
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. theropod
teeth of a small form
 Theropoda - Troodontidae
Troodon cf. formosus Leidy 1856 maniraptoran
egg clutch
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Saurornitholestes sp. Sues 1978 maniraptoran
skeleton
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
Tyrannosauridae indet. Osborn 1906 tyrannosaurid
teeth
 Pterosauria -
Piksi barbarulna n. gen. n. sp.
Piksi barbarulna n. gen. n. sp. Varricchio 2002 pterosaur
Amphibia
 Salientia -
Anura indet. frog
"associated to articulated frogs"