Owl Creek (UCM Loc. 80013) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as L&W locality 43, Lone Tree Creek, Loc. 2

Where: Weld County, Colorado (40.9° N, 104.8° W: paleocoordinates 47.5° N, 80.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Maxson; reposited in the UCM

• collected by Mr. Maxson of Longmont, material not at University of Colorado

Primary reference: R. S. Lull and N. E. Wright. 1942. Hadrosaurian dinosaurs of North America. Geological Society of America Special Paper 40:1-242 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 46210: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 07.01.2005, edited by Patricia Holroyd

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Ceratopsidae indet.1 Marsh 1888 ceratopsid
UCM 43699, braincase
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Edmontosaurus sp.1 Lambe 1917 hadrosaurine
UCM 18953, pair of maxillae
 Testudinata - Baenidae
Plesiobaena cf. antiqua2 Lambe 1902 turtle