1.5 miles up Horse Creek (41 ft) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Torrington

Where: Goshen County, Wyoming (41.9° N, 104.2° W: paleocoordinates 48.4° N, 79.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Torrington Member (Lance Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; yellow sandstone and shale

• "Yellow sandstone grading laterally into variegated shales with Triceratops."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E. M. Schlaikjer in 1930

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: Anonymous. 1934. Harvard exhibits new-found triple-horned dinosaur. Science News Letter 25:375 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52107: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 22.07.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
"Triceratops eurycephalus n. sp." = Triceratops horridus
"Triceratops eurycephalus n. sp." = Triceratops horridus Marsh 1889 ceratopsid
MCZ 1102