Moreau River (AMNH) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as L&W locality 37

Where: Perkins County, South Dakota (45.1° N, 102.5° W: paleocoordinates 51.1° N, 76.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hell Creek Formation (Montana Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• "Laramie" = Hell Creek Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: soft parts

Collected by J. L. Wortman, R. S. Hill in 1882-1884; reposited in the AMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: E. D. Cope. 1883. The structure and appearance of a Laramie dinosaurian. American Naturalist 17:774-777 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24790: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.08.2002

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
"Anatosaurus copei n. sp." = Edmontosaurus annectens
"Anatosaurus copei n. sp." = Edmontosaurus annectens Marsh 1892 hadrosaurine
AMNH 5730