"Willow" site, Harding County (PROXY) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as NCSM Thescelosaurus

Where: Harding County, South Dakota (45.6° N, 103.8° W: paleocoordinates 51.8° N, 77.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hell Creek Formation (Montana Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• upper half of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coarse channel fill; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. Hammer

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: P. E. Fisher, D. A. Russell, M. K. Stoskopf, R. E. Barrick, M. Hammer and A. A. Kuzmitz. 2000. Cardiovascular evidence for an intermediate or higher metabolism in an ornithischian dinosaur. Science 288:503-505 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 221943: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.09.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Thescelosaurus sp. Gilmore 1913 ornithopod
NCSM 15728