Magical Mystery Bar (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Norton's Bed

Where: North Slope County, Alaska (70.1° N, 151.5° W: paleocoordinates 82.4° N, 127.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Prince Creek Formation (Colville Group), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; mudstone

• "Deposition occurred in trunk channels, on distributary-channel splay complexes, in interdistributary bays, and on floodplains."
• mudstone with blocky structure

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the DMNH

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: A. R. Fiorillo, R. S. Tykoski, P. J. Currie, P. J. McCarthy, and P. Flaig. 2009. Description of two partial Troodon braincases from the Prince Creek Formation (Upper Cretaceous), North Slope Alaska. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(1):178-187 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88975: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.04.2009, edited by Mihaela Krause

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Neornithischia - Thescelosauridae
Thescelosaurinae indet.1
Thescelosaurinae indet.1 Sternberg 1940 ornithischian
UAMES
 Theropoda - Troodontidae
Troodon formosus
Troodon formosus Leidy 1856 maniraptoran
DMNH 22158
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula aff. percrassa2
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Cyprididae
Mongolocypris sp.2
Mongolocypris sp.2 Szczechura 1978 ostracod
1Brown and Druckenmiller 2011; 2Suarez et al. 2016