Promontory Pointe (DMNH Loc. 1927) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Loc. 21

Where: Jefferson County, Colorado (39.9° N, 105.1° W: paleocoordinates 46.5° N, 81.3° 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 classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the DMNH

Primary reference: K. Carpenter and D. B. Young. 2002. Late Cretaceous dinosaurs from the Denver Basin, Colorado. Rocky Mountain Geology 37(2):237-254 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 49547: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.04.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Dromaeosauridae indet. Colbert and Russell 1969 maniraptoran
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
Tyrannosaurus rex Osborn 1905 tyrant lizard king
DMNH 32825, tooth
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Ceratopsidae indet. Marsh 1888 ceratopsid
DMNH 34595, ?radius
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid