Canyon Bonebed, MOR TM-046 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as ETE Locality 1568, CBB, Landslide Butte

Where: Glacier County, Montana (49.0° N, 112.7° W: paleocoordinates 56.5° N, 77.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Two Medicine Formation), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• upper part of formation; specimens from bonebed plus one downslope (MOR 492)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; bioturbated, sandy siltstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: ab_chan_fill ETE event: ., ETE env comment: drought

•"shallow, vegetated oxbow lakes"

• ETE rock type adj: "drk brn,sandy", ETE lithology comments: .

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• ETE reference list: 666, 664, 645, 982, 983, 984, 658, 985, 986, 987, 988, 660, ;

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 22693: 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
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Einiosaurus procurvicornis n. gen. n. sp.2 Sampson 1994 ceratopsid
MOR 456
Rubeosaurus ovatus1 Gilmore 1930 ceratopsid
MOR 492
 Theropoda -