PTRM V96022, Cannonball Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Slope County, North Dakota (46.5° N, 104.0° W: paleocoordinates 52.9° N, 77.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hell Creek Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• datum -4.90, K-T section 9653

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: D. A. Pearson, T. Schaefer, K. R. Johnson, D. J. Nichols, and J. P. Hunter. 2002. Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Hell Creek Formation in southwestern North Dakota and northwestern South Dakota. In J. H. Hartman, J. R. Johnson, and D. J. Nichols (eds.), The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the Northern Great Plains: An Integrated Continental Record of the End of the Cretaceous, Geological Society of America Special Paper 361:145-167 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45141: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 07.10.2004

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Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Caudata - Urodela
Scapherpeton tectum Cope 1876 salamander
Reptilia
 Testudines - Adocidae
Adocus sp. Cope 1868 turtle
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
Tyrannosaurus rex Osborn 1905 tyrant lizard king