Milk River ceratopsian bonebed (USNM) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Gilmore, USGS

Where: Glacier County, Montana (49.0° N, 112.7° W: paleocoordinates 56.5° N, 77.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Two Medicine Formation), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E. Stebinger, C. Gilmore, Strayer in 1913; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1914. A new ceratopsian dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Montana, with note on Hypacrosaurus. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 63(3):1-10 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 50083: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.05.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Brachyceratops montanensis n. gen. n. sp. Gilmore 1914 ceratopsid
MNI = 5; USNM 7951