south side, Jimmy Camp Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as L&W locality 44

Where: El Paso County, Colorado (38.9° N, 104.7° W: paleocoordinates 45.6° N, 80.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Dawson Arkose Formation (Monument Creek Group), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• about 500 ft above base of the Dawson Arkose (= lower part of Monument Creek Fm. of "former writers")

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; white sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. T. Lee in 1912; reposited in the USNM

• collected 1912 by W. T. Lee

Primary reference: W. T. Lee. 1913. Recent discovery of dinosaurs in the Tertiary. The American Journal of Science, series 4 35(209):531-534 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 46211: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 07.01.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Ceratopsia indet. ceratopsian
fragmentary bones; ID by C. W. Gilmore
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
phalanx; ; ID by C. W. Gilmore
 Testudinata -
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle
"hard and soft shell turtles"