BFD, MOR 609 (PROXY) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as St. Mary River

Where: Glacier County, Montana (49.0° N, 113.3° W: paleocoordinates 56.9° N, 86.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: St. Mary River Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 1986-1991

Primary reference: L. M. Witmer and D. B. Weishampel. 1993. Remains of theropod dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous St. Mary River Formation of northwestern Montana, with special reference to a new maniraptoran braincase. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 13(3, suppl.):63A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 55247: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 03.10.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Ornithomimidae
Ornithomimidae indet. Marsh 1890 ornithomimid
MOR-609-88-31; "probably Dromiceiomimus"
 Theropoda -
Maniraptora indet. Gauthier 1986 maniraptoran
MOR-609-88-56