Also known as Big Dry Creek, Big Dry West
Where: Garfield County, Montana (48.0° N, 106.5° W: paleocoordinates 54.8° N, 78.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Hell Creek Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• 30 m above Fox Hills Sandstone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by B. Brown in 1908; reposited in the AMNH, CM
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• collected August 10, 1908 by Barnum Brown
Primary reference: H. F. Osborn. 1909. Extinct mammals, birds, reptiles and fishes. Fortieth Annual Report of the American Museum of Natural History for the Year 1908 30-32 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 48848: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 31.03.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Stygimoloch spinifer" = Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis
"Stygimoloch spinifer" = Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis Gilmore 1931 ornithischian AMNH 21541 (field no. 5)
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