Also known as Fish Creek, Mud Creek
Where: Wheatland County, Montana (46.3° N, 109.6° W: paleocoordinates 53.4° N, 76.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bearpaw Shale Formation (Montana Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• fossils from "lower Bearpaw Shale" - could be Judith River Fm.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; concretionary shale and limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: soft parts
Collected by E. Douglass, M. Farr, A. Silberling in 1901, 1904; reposited in the CM, YPM
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: E. Douglass. 1902. Dinosaurs in the Fort Pierre Shales and underlying beds in Montana. Science 15(366):31-32 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 26766: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.10.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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