Where: Slope County, North Dakota (46.4° N, 103.9° W: paleocoordinates 52.6° N, 77.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Hell Creek Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• datum -8.80, K-T section 86148
• 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 45386: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.10.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Hadrosaurinae indet. Lambe 1918 hadrosaurine | |
"Leidyosuchus sternbergi" = Borealosuchus sternbergii
"Leidyosuchus sternbergi" = Borealosuchus sternbergii Gilmore 1910 crocodilian | |
Adocus sp. Cope 1868 turtle |