Little Dry Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Green Mountain Creek. Loc. 26

Where: Jefferson County, Colorado (39.8° N, 105.0° W: paleocoordinates 46.5° N, 81.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G. Coon & G. Cannon; reposited in the DMNH

Primary reference: G. L. Cannon. 1906. Notes on some fossils recently discovered near Denver, Colorado. Proceedings of the Colorado Scientific Society 8:194-198 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 49527: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.04.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Triceratops sp. Marsh 1889 ceratopsid
femur, horn core
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Dromaeosauridae indet. Colbert and Russell 1969 maniraptoran
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
Tyrannosauridae indet. Osborn 1906 tyrannosaurid
teeth