Jack's Bay 5, UCMP V-84186 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: McCone County, Montana (47.6° N, 106.2° W: paleocoordinates 54.2° N, 79.2° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Hell Creek Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, green mudstone

• "a homogeneous green-brown mudstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. Thompson in 1984; reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: M. B. Goodwin and J. R. Horner. 1997. Morphological variation and ontogeny in the skull of Triceratops. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17(3, suppl.):49A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55354: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.10.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Triceratops sp. Marsh 1889 ceratopsid
UCMP 136306