Cannonball River mouth (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Missouri

Where: Slope County, North Dakota (46.5° N, 103.9° W: paleocoordinates 52.8° N, 76.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hell Creek Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• approx. 100 ft above Fox Hills sandstone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone and shale

• "sandstones and shales"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by T. Stanton in 1908

Primary reference: T. W. Stanton. 1909. The age and stratigraphic relationships of the "Ceratops beds" of Wyoming and Montana. Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences 11(3):239-293 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 142488: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 12.04.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Trachodon sp. Leidy 1856 hadrosaurid
 Ornithischia -
Ceratopsia indet. ceratopsian