Where: Fergus County, Montana (43.6° N, 109.4° W: paleocoordinates 50.9° N, 77.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Judith River Formation (Montana Group), Middle Campanian to Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by C. H. Sternberg & C. M. Sternberg in 1914; reposited in the GSC
Primary reference: L. M. Lambe. 1915. Report of the vertebrate palaeontologist. Summary report of the Geological Survey Department of Mines for the Calendar Year 1914 1503:116-121 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 59217: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.03.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Lepidosteus sp. Agassiz 1843 gar | |
Reptilia | |
Troodon cf. formosus Leidy 1856 maniraptoran | |
"Trachodontidae indet." = Hadrosauridae
"Trachodontidae indet." = Hadrosauridae Cope 1869 hadrosaurid | |
cf. Palaeoscincus sp. Leidy 1856 ankylosaur | |
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian | |
Champsosaurus sp. Cope 1876 choristodere | |
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Myledaphus bipartitus Cope 1876 guitarfish |