UCMP V83125, Skull Crest (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Brachylophosaurus goodwini type site, Canadian Creek

Where: Hill County, Montana (49.0° N, 110.6° W: paleocoordinates 56.2° N, 76.2° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: McClelland Ferry Member (Judith River Formation), Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• "approximate middle" of Judith River Formation, approximately 15 m above coal bed "assumed to be equivalen to top of the 'Foremost Formation' of Alberta."

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, green mudstone and gray, yellow sandstone

• "alternating greenish-brown mudstones and grey-to-tan fluted sandstones (Goodwin, pers. comm.). Thin carbonaceous sandstones and shales occasionally occur a the bases of the massive fluted sandstones.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: J. R. Horner. 1988. A new hadrosaur (Reptilia, Ornithischia) from the Upper Cretaceous Judith River Formation of Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 8(3):314-321 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26779: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 31.10.2002, edited by Jonathan Tennant

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Judiceratops tigris n. gen. n. sp.
Judiceratops tigris n. gen. n. sp. Longrich 2013 ceratopsid
Holotype: YPM VPPU 022404, partial skull including postorbital horns, parts of the frontals, prefrontals, and lacrimals, parts of right squamosal and parietals, occipital condyle and parts of supraoccipital;
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
"Brachylophosaurus goodwini n. sp." = Brachylophosaurus canadensis
"Brachylophosaurus goodwini n. sp." = Brachylophosaurus canadensis Sternberg 1953 hadrosaurine
UCMP 130139