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
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 indet. squamates | |
Theropoda indet. theropod | |
"Prosaurolophus blackfeetensis n. sp." = Prosaurolophus maximus
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Insecta | |
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