Dracorex type site (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: South Dakota (45.1° N, 102.1° W: paleocoordinates 52.1° N, 75.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hell Creek Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• middle part of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Size class: mesofossils

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

Primary reference: R. T. Bakker, R. M. Sullivan, V. Porter, P. Larson, and S. J. Saulsbury. 2006. Dracorex hogwartsia, n. gen., n. sp., a spiked, flat-headed pachycephalosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation of South Dakota. In S. G. Lucas and R. M. Sullivan (eds.), Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35:331-345 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 58813: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.02.2006

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
"Dracorex hogwartsia n. gen. n. sp." = Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis
"Dracorex hogwartsia n. gen. n. sp." = Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis Gilmore 1931 ornithischian
TCMI 2004.17.1