Where: McCone County, Montana (47.9° N, 106.2° W: paleocoordinates 54.6° N, 78.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Hell Creek Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• possibly same beds as Harbicht Hill no. 1 but cannot be traced laterally across canyon separating them
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: P. M. Galton and H.-D. Sues. 1983. New data on pachycephalosaurid dinosaurs (Reptilia: Ornithischia) from North America. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 20(3):462-472 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 47626: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 28.02.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Multituberculata indet. Cope 1884 multituberculate | |
Reptilia | |
Adocus sp. Cope 1868 turtle | |
Chelydridae indet. Swainson 1839 turtle | |
Compsemys victa Leidy 1856 turtle | |
"Stygimoloch spinifer n. gen. n. sp." = Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis
"Stygimoloch spinifer n. gen. n. sp." = Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis Gilmore 1931 ornithischian | |
Actinopteri | |
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843 gar |