Where: South Dakota (45.1° N, 102.1° W: paleocoordinates 52.1° N, 75.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Hell Creek Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• middle part of formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: R. T. Bakker, R. M. Sullivan, V. Porter, P. Larson, and S. J. Saulsbury. 2006. Dracorex hogwartsia, n. gen., n. sp., a spiked, flat-headed pachycephalosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation of South Dakota. In S. G. Lucas and R. M. Sullivan (eds.), Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35:331-345 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 58813: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.02.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Dracorex hogwartsia n. gen. n. sp." = Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis
"Dracorex hogwartsia n. gen. n. sp." = Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis Gilmore 1931 ornithischian TCMI 2004.17.1
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