Sling Point Quarry (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: North Slope County, Alaska (69.6° N, 151.8° W: paleocoordinates 81.9° N, 128.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kogosukruk Tongue Member (Prince Creek Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; siltstone and sandstone

• "Deposition occurred in trunk channels, on distributary-channel splay complexes, in interdistributary bays, and on floodplains."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by University of Alaska Museum in the 1980s

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), mechanical,

Primary reference: A. R. Fiorillo and R. A. Gangloff. 2001. Theropod teeth from the Prince Creek Formation (Cretaceous) of northern Alaska, with speculations on Arctic dinosaur paleoecology. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(4):675-682 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51892: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 29.06.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Troodontidae
Troodon formosus Leidy 1856 maniraptoran