Where: McCone County, Montana (47.6° N, 106.2° W: paleocoordinates 54.3° N, 78.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Hell Creek Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lenticular, gray mudstone and carbonaceous shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by D. Hilton in 2006
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• Collected by Sierra College
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 109661: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.05.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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