Egg Explosion Hill, MOR TM-038 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Glacier County, Montana (48.9° N, 112.6° W: paleocoordinates 56.5° N, 77.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Specimens found in the uppermost 100 of the 650-m thick formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, green mudstone

• "greenish-gray mudstones"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J. R. Horner and P. J. Currie. 1994. Embryonic and neonatal morphology and ontogeny of a new species of Hypacrosaurus (Ornithischia, Lambeosauridae) from Montana and Alberta. In K. Carpenter, K. F. Hirsch, and J. R. Horner (eds.), Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 312-336 [A. Behrensmeyer/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 53045: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 01.09.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Ornithomimidae
Ornithomimidae indet. Marsh 1890 ornithomimid
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
Nodosauridae indet. Marsh 1890 ankylosaur
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hypacrosaurus stebingeri Horner and Currie 1994 lambeosaurine