Dino Ridge Quarry, MOR TM-023 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as ETE Locality 1569, DRQ, 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)

• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: 0 radiometric intage_min; upper part of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; bioturbated, brown, sandy, carbonaceous 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, 984, 983, 982, 657, 987, ;

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 22694: 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
 Theropoda - Ornithomimidae
Ornithomimidae indet.2 Marsh 1890 ornithomimid
 Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae
Ankylosauridae indet.2 Brown 1908 ankylosaurid
Euoplocephalus sp.2 Lambe 1910 ankylosaurid
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
Nodosauridae indet.2 Marsh 1890 ankylosaur
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
 Ornithischia -
Ceratopsia indet.2 ceratopsian
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Einiosaurus procurvicornis2 Sampson 1994 ceratopsid
MOR 373
Brachyceratops sp.1 Gilmore 1914 ceratopsid