Where: Blaine County, Montana (47.8° N, 108.9° W: paleocoordinates 54.7° N, 75.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Judith River Formation (Montana Group), Middle Campanian to Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• 1500-1600 feet below top of formation, 500-600 feet below level of Ceratops
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. B. Hatcher in 1888; reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: O. C. Marsh. 1890. Description of new dinosaurian reptiles. The American Journal of Science, series 3 39:81-86 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 49001: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.04.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Ornithomimus tenuis n. sp.
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