Where: Slope County, North Dakota (46.5° N, 104.0° W: paleocoordinates 52.7° N, 77.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pretty Butte Member (Hell Creek Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• bed is 12 m below lignite marking base of Ludlow Formation (and therefore top of Hell Creek).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1963
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: F. D. Holland, Jr. 1997. A North Dakota Triceratops skull. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 32(1):37-50 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 24851: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.08.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Triceratops prorsus Marsh 1890 ceratopsid |