AMNH 33-1, Middle Dome (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Also known as Tenontosaurus type site, AMNH 3040

Where: Wheatland County, Montana (46.3° N, 109.7° W: paleocoordinates 45.9° N, 66.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Himes Member (Cloverly Formation), Middle Albian to Middle Albian (109.0 - 93.5 Ma)

• questionable stratigraphic assignment; = Ostrom's Unit VII, fossils from approx. 60 ft below base of Unit VIII

•D'Emic et al. 2019: New data reported in this study suggest that deposition of the Cloverly Formation spanned the Valanginian–Cenomanian stages (ca. 140 Ma–98 Ma), a longer time interval than the commonly cited Aptian–Albian depositional timeframe. In the mid–late Albian to early Cenomanian (ca. 109–98 Ma), sediment sourced from the east was deposited as the Himes Member and Greybull Sandstone.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by B. Brown in 1933; reposited in the AMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: J. H. Ostrom. 1970. Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of the Bighorn Basin area, Wyoming and Montana. Peabody Museum Bulletin 35:1-234 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 47346: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.02.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Tenontosaurus tilletti n. gen. n. sp.
Tenontosaurus tilletti n. gen. n. sp. Ostrom 1970 ornithopod
AMNH 3040
 Theropoda - Caenagnathidae
Microvenator celer n. gen. n. sp.
Microvenator celer n. gen. n. sp. Ostrom 1970 maniraptoran
AMNH 3041
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Deinonychus antirrhopus Ostrom 1969 maniraptoran
numerous teeth