OMNH locality V1057 (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Also known as Aquilops americanus type locality

Where: Carbon County County, Montana (45.0° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 44.4° N, 65.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Himes Member (Cloverly Formation), Middle Albian to Middle Albian (109.0 - 99.6 Ma)

• Unit VII

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red, sandy claystone

• OMNH 34557 originated from a deep red sandy claystone in the basal part of unit VII of the Cloverly Formation, as defined by Ostrom

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: OMNH

Primary reference: A. A. Farke, W. D. Maxwell, R. L. Cifelli and M. J. Wedel. 2014. A ceratopsian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of western North America, and the biogeography of Neoceratopsia. PLoS ONE 9(12):e11205:15-18 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 164673: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 10.12.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Aquilops americanus n. gen. n. sp.
Aquilops americanus n. gen. n. sp. Farke et al. 2014 ceratopsian
OMNH 34557, a partial skull, with associated predentary, partial left dentary, and additional associated but unidentifiable fragments