MOR HC-377 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Garfield County, Montana (47.3° N, 107.1° W: paleocoordinates 54.1° N, 80.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hell Creek Formation, Lancian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• within lower three-quarters of Hell Creek Formation from approximately 76.4 to 19.5 m below the Hell Creek–Tullock formational contact

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: D. G. DeMar, Jr. 2013. A new fossil salamander (Caudata, Proteidae) from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Hell Creek Formation, Montana, U.S.A. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(3):588-598 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144503: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 08.05.2013, edited by Patricia Holroyd

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Caudata - Urodela
Lisserpeton bairdi Estes 1965 salamander
Paranecturus garbanii DeMar 2013 mudpuppy
MOR specimen