Where: North Slope County, Alaska (70.1° N, 151.5° W: paleocoordinates 82.4° N, 127.5° 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
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 51893: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 29.06.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Troodon formosus Leidy 1856 maniraptoran | |
Dromaeosaurus albertensis Matthew and Brown 1922 maniraptoran | |
Tyrannosauridae indet. Osborn 1906 tyrannosaurid |