ridge between Buck Creek and Lance Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Triceratops flabellatus type, Hatcher Sk. 2

Where: Niobrara County, Wyoming (43.2° N, 104.6° W: paleocoordinates 49.6° N, 79.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• "Laramie"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; poorly lithified, sandy marl

• "arenaceous shale", also descriibed as "loose sandy marl"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by J. B. Hatcher in 1889; reposited in the YPM

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

• collected by J. B. Hatcher, June 1 1889

Primary reference: J. B. Hatcher, O. C. Marsh, and R. S. Lull. 1907. The Ceratopsia. Monographs of the United States Geological Survey 49:1-198 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46136: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 04.01.2005

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Taxonomic list

• includes mammals, vertebrates and invertebrates, but none are named
Mammalia
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Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758 mammal
Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
"Triceratops flabellatus n. sp." = Triceratops horridus
"Triceratops flabellatus n. sp." = Triceratops horridus Marsh 1889 ceratopsid
YPM 1821 (= Sk. 2)