Where: Garfield County, Montana (47.8° N, 106.3° W: paleocoordinates 54.5° N, 78.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hell Creek Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by B. Brown & P. Kaisen in 1908; reposited in the AMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• sold to Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery in 1958, now at Thinktank in Birmingham
Primary reference: Anonymous. 1958. Triceratops at home 80,000,000 years ago—and in Birmingham today. The Illustrated London News 232(6197):439 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 189572: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 31.10.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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