Wayne's X Triceratops locality: Lancian, North Dakota
collected by Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center 2002
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Stagodontidae
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Didelphodon vorax
Marsh 1889
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| UWBM 94084 | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | North Dakota | County: | Bowman |
| Coordinates: | 46.2° North, 103.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 52.4° North, 77.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Altitude: | 884 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
| Key time interval: | Lancian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Hell Creek |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | fine,medium,concretionary,hematitic,gray,red or brown sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: light grey to tan, fine-grained to medium-grained sandstone unit with haematitic and limonitic ironstone concretions | |
| Environment: | channel lag |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | UWBM | ||
| Collectors: | Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center | Collection dates: | 2002 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | UWBM locality C1526; 17.24 km southwest of Rhame | ||
| Database number: | 183292 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-12-09 11:03:40 | Last modified: | 2016-12-09 11:04:11 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-12-09 11:03:40 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 61169. | G. P. Wilson, E. G. Ekdale, J. W. Hoganson, J. J. Calede, and A. Vander Linden. 2016. A large carnivorous mammal from the Late Cretaceous and the North American origin of marsupials. Nature Communications 7:13734:1-10 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |