Where: Slope County, North Dakota (46.5° N, 104.0° W: paleocoordinates 52.7° N, 77.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• daum -16.00, K-T section 9840

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; carbonaceous shale

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 45309: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.10.2004

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