MOR CL-016, Middle Dome (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Wheatland County, Montana (46.3° N, 109.7° W: paleocoordinates 45.9° N, 63.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Himes Member (Cloverly Formation), Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• basal part of Unit VII

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red mudstone

• "red mudstone layers"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Makela, Parsons & Parsons in 1985, 1996-1998

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

Primary reference: W. L. Parsons and K. M. Parsons. 2000. A new skull of a nodosaurid from the Cloverly Formation of Montana and its comparison to AMNH 3035, Sauropelta edwardsi. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(3 (suppl.)):62A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91904: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.10.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
Tatankacephalus cooneyorum n. gen. n. sp.1 Parsons and Parsons 2009 ankylosaur
MOR 1073
 Saurischia -
Rugocaudia cooneyi n. gen. n. sp.2
Rugocaudia cooneyi n. gen. n. sp.2 Woodruff 2012 sauropod
MOR 334