Second Level (Reworked) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as UCMP V-87101 (in part); UWBM locality C1692

Where: McCone County, Montana (47.6° N, 106.2° W: paleocoordinates 54.2° N, 79.2° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

Environment/lithology: channel lag; fine-grained, brown, gray sandstone

• dark grey to brown, cross-stratified, fine-grained sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: D. L. Lofgren. 1995. The Bug Creek problem and the Cretaceous-Tertiary transition at McGuire Creek, Montana. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 140:1-185 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14617: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 12.04.1997, edited by Matthew Carrano and Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Stagodontidae
Didelphodon vorax3 Marsh 1889 metatherian
UWBM 94500
 Theriamorpha - Alphadontidae
Alphadon sp.1 Simpson 1927 metatherian
 Theriamorpha - Gypsonictopidae
Gypsonictops illuminatus Lillegraven 1969 eutherian
Reptilia
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Richardoestesia sp.2 Currie et al. 1990 maniraptoran