Jump Off (SDSM) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Camp Crook, Jumpoff

Where: Harding County, South Dakota (45.5° N, 103.8° W: paleocoordinates 51.7° N, 77.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lance Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• "lower Lance"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the SDSM

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J. D. Bump. 1939. Dinosaurs collected by the School of Mines. The Black Hills Engineer 25(4):228-229 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 179970: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.07.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Trachodon sp. Leidy 1856 hadrosaurid
SDSM 2742, tail vertebrae
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Triceratops sp. Marsh 1889 ceratopsid
SDSM 736, horn cores