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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Anatosaurus copei n. sp." = Edmontosaurus annectens
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