Where: Lawrence County, South Dakota (44.5° N, 103.6° W: paleocoordinates 41.6° N, 51.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Chilson Member (Lakota Formation), Valanginian (139.8 - 132.9 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by D. Rossow; reposited in the SDSM
Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,
• Collected by Dale Rossow while "hunting rattlesnakes on a hogback formed by the Lakota Formation near Sturgis." Presented to Drs. John Willard and Morton Green, then to P. R. Bjork.
Primary reference: P. R. Bjork. 1985. A new iguanodontid dinosaur from the Lakota Formation of the northern Black Hills of South Dakota. In A. E. Leviton, M. L. Aldrich, & H. Chambers (eds.), Proceedings of the Pacific Division, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Program with Abstracts of the 66th Annual Meeting 4(1):22 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 49375: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.04.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Iguanodon lakotaensis n. sp." = Dakotadon lakotaensis
"Iguanodon lakotaensis n. sp." = Dakotadon lakotaensis Weishampel and Bjork 1989 ornithopod |