Harley's Baby Triceratops, UCMP V-97006: Maastrichtian, Montana
collected by H. Garbani 1987
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Tyrannosauridae
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Tyrannosaurus sp.
Osborn 1905
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Goodwin et al. 2006 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Ceratopsidae
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Triceratops sp.
Marsh 1889
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1 individual | |||||||||
| UCMP 154452 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Cimolomyidae
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Meniscoessus cf. robustus
(Marsh 1889)
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Goodwin et al. 2006 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Montana | County: | Garfield |
| Coordinates: | 47.6° North, 107.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 54.6° North, 80.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | unpublished field data | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
| Key time interval: | Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Hell Creek |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | medium,ferruginous,gray carbonaceous siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "Unstratified, medium gray siltstone that weathers to light gray. Yellow, ferruginous streaks and globules as well as fragmentary plant remains occur throughout the sediment." | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Associated major elements: | all |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | UCMP | ||
| Collectors: | H. Garbani | Collection dates: | 1987 |
| Collection method comments: collected by Harley J. Garbani | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 55353 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano, K. Maguire |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-10-11 20:23:59 | Last modified: | 2011-05-19 16:09:28 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-10-11 20:23:59 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 14848. | ETE | M. B. Goodwin and J. R. Horner. 1997. Morphological variation and ontogeny in the skull of Triceratops. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17(3, suppl.):49A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 17308 | ETE | M. B. Goodwin, W. A. Clemens, J. R. Horner and K. Padian. 2006. The smallest known Triceratops skull: new observations on ceratopsid cranial anatomy and ontogeny. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(1):103-112 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano] |
| 36232 | ETE | M. B. Goodwin and J. R. Horner. 2010. Historical collecting bias and the fossil record of Triceratops in Montana. In M. J. Ryan, B. J. Chinnery-Allgeier, D. A. Eberth (eds.), New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 551-563 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |