Middle Dome microsite (MOR) [PROXY] (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Wheatland County, Montana (46.3° N, 109.7° W: paleocoordinates 45.9° N, 63.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Himes Member (Cloverly Formation), Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• basal part of Unit VII

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Parsons & Parsons

Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), surface (in situ), sieve,

Primary reference: W. L. Parson and K. Parsons. 2002. Data from new dinosaur material discovered in the Cloverly Formation of central Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(3 (suppl.)):95A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 227226: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.09.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
"Deinonychus antirrophus" = Deinonychus antirrhopus
"Deinonychus antirrophus" = Deinonychus antirrhopus Ostrom 1969 maniraptoran
MOR 1178; compared to Troodon, Deinonychus but not otherwise classified