Where: Carter County, Montana (45.6° N, 104.9° W: paleocoordinates 52.0° N, 78.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Hell Creek Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• described as uppermost Maastrichtian, Lancian NALMA; site is approx. 75 m below the K/T boundary in the local area
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "channel"; medium-grained sandstone
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by L. Goodman in 2001
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• Lou Goodman
Primary reference: C. J. Ott. 2007. Cranial anatomy and biogeography of the first Leptoceratops gracilis (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) specimens from the Hell Creek Formation, southeast Montana. In K. Carpenter (ed.), Horns and Beaks: Ceratopsian and Ornithopod Dinosaurs 213-233 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 73948: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.07.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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