Cattle Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Garfield County, Montana (47.6° N, 106.7° W: paleocoordinates 54.5° N, 79.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hell Creek Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• 38 feet above contact with Fox Hills Sandstone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, concretionary, calcareous sandstone and lithified, lenticular, concretionary, pebbly conglomerate

• "located in a concretionary sandstone and limestone mass at the junction of a forked lens of conglomerate, consisting of quartzite cobbles and ironstone nodules"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Rohrer in 1957; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: W. L. Rohrer and R. Konizeski. 1960. On the occurrence of Edmontosaurus in the Hell Creek formation of Montana. Journal of Paleontology 34(3):464-466 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 50088: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.05.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Edmontosaurus sp.
Edmontosaurus sp. Lambe 1917 hadrosaurine
USNM 22102