Burpee Museum loc. K-12 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Jane site

Where: Carter County, Montana (45.9° N, 104.6° W: paleocoordinates 52.2° N, 78.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• approx. 60-70m above the baseof the Hell Creek

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fine channel fill; carbonaceous sandstone and argillaceous conglomerate

• "point bar deposits", "sediments record a stream avulsion and subsequent development of an oxbow lake"
• "Thick, poorly sorted sandstone. This sandstone exhibits weakly developed cross bedding and occasional specimens of angiosperm leaves. The sandstone unit is inturn overlain by a clay ball conglomerate, which contained the tyrannosaur skeleton"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2002

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: M. D. Henderson and J. E. Peterson. 2006. An azhdarchid pterosaur cervical vertebra from the Hell Creek Formation (Maastrichtian) of southeastern Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(1):192-195 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 60169: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 04.05.2006, edited by Matthew Carrano and Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Reptilia
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
Tyrannosauridae indet. Osborn 1906 tyrannosaurid
BMR P2002.4.1 ("Jane")
 Anthophyta -
Angiospermae
 Vitales - Vitaceae
 Rosales - Rhamnaceae
"Rhamnus" cleburni Lesquereux 1872 buckthorn
 Fagales - Nothofagaceae
"Dryophyllum" subfalcatum Lesquereux 1875
 Gunnerales -
Tricolpites microreticulatus Belsky et al. 1965
 Laurales - Lauraceae
Marmarthia trivialis Johnson 1996 laurel
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Taxodiaceae
Parataxodium sp. Arnold and Lowther 1955