2 miles north of Briggsdale (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Loc. 4, UCM Loc. 77062, UCM Loc. 82029

Where: Weld County, Colorado (40.7° N, 104.3° W: paleocoordinates 47.2° N, 80.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• found ca. 30 ft above last exposed lignite

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Henderson & Toepelman

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: W. C. Toepelman. 1926. Notes on the Laramie Formation in central Weld County, Colorado. The Journal of Geology 34(8):834-835 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 49529: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.04.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Triceratops horridus Marsh 1889 ceratopsid
horn core