Where: Slope County, North Dakota (46.5° N, 104.0° W: paleocoordinates 52.9° N, 77.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Hell Creek Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• datum -8.50, K-T secetion 9612
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: D. A. Pearson, T. Schaefer, K. R. Johnson, D. J. Nichols, and J. P. Hunter. 2002. Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Hell Creek Formation in southwestern North Dakota and northwestern South Dakota. In J. H. Hartman, J. R. Johnson, and D. J. Nichols (eds.), The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the Northern Great Plains: An Integrated Continental Record of the End of the Cretaceous, Geological Society of America Special Paper 361:145-167 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 45312: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.10.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
Scapherpeton tectum Cope 1876 salamander | |
Reptilia | |
Ceratopsidae indet. Marsh 1888 ceratopsid | |
Tyrannosaurus rex Osborn 1905 tyrant lizard king | |
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle | |
Adocus sp. Cope 1868 turtle | |
Compsemys victa Leidy 1856 turtle | |
Actinopteri | |
"Kindleia fragosa" = Cyclurus fragosus
"Kindleia fragosa" = Cyclurus fragosus Jordan 1927 bowfin | |
Lepisosteus occidentalis Leidy 1856 gar |