Blacktail Creek North, MOR TM-072 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as ETE Locality 1526, BC/N, Black Tail Creek

Where: Glacier County, Montana (48.6° N, 113.8° W: paleocoordinates 56.5° N, 79.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Two Medicine Formation (Montana Group), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: . radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; silty mudstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: crev_splay ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0
• ETE rock type adj: silty, ETE lithology comments: 0

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1989

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 478, ; ETE museum list:

Primary reference: D. J. Varricchio. 1993. Taphonomy of Jack's Birthday site, a diverse dinosaur bone bed. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 13(3, suppl.):61A [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22652: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 16.04.2001, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
 Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae
Ankylosauridae indet.2 Brown 1908 ankylosaurid
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Achelousaurus horneri3 Sampson 1994 ceratopsid
MOR 571 (partial skull, vertebrae, ribs), 591 (partial subadult skeleton)
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet.2, "Prosaurolophus blackfeetensis" = Prosaurolophus maximus2
Hadrosauridae indet.2 Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
"Prosaurolophus blackfeetensis" = Prosaurolophus maximus2 Brown 1916 hadrosaurine
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
Daspletosaurus horneri n. sp.1 Carr et al. 2017 tyrannosaurine
MOR 590
 Saurischia -
Saurischia indet. saurischian
ETE occurrence; species: Saurischia