West-Side Quarry, MOR TM-041 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as ETE Locality 1567, Westside, Southside, South-Side

Where: Glacier County, Montana (48.9° N, 112.6° W: paleocoordinates 56.6° N, 78.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Two Medicine Formation (Montana Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: 0 radiometric intage_min

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; gray, green, silty mudstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: drought
• ETE rock type adj: "grey,grn,silty", ETE lithology comments: .

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1986

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 657, 981, ; ETE museum list: . Rogers (1992) lists this as two separate quarries, noted by their specimen numbers (MOR 447 for West-Side, MOR 454 for South-Side), but both form a single bonebed.

Primary reference: R. R. Rogers. 1991. Taphonomy of three dinosaur bone beds in the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Northwestern Monana: evidence for drought-related mortality. Palaios 5:394-413 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22692: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 29.05.2001, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata -
Squamata indet. squamates
 Theropoda -
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
"Prosaurolophus blackfeetensis n. sp." = Prosaurolophus maximus
"Prosaurolophus blackfeetensis n. sp." = Prosaurolophus maximus Brown 1916 hadrosaurine
MOR 454
 Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae
Ankylosauridae indet.1 Brown 1908 ankylosaurid
Insecta
 Coleoptera - Dermestidae
Dermestidae indet.2 Latreille 1804 skin beetle
borings in bone