PTRM V97002, Cannonball Creek: Maastrichtian, North Dakota
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Tyrannosauridae
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Tyrannosaurus rex
Osborn 1905
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1 specimen | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | North Dakota | County: | Slope |
Coordinates: | 46.4° North, 103.0° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 52.6° North, 75.9° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
Altitude: | 860 meters | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
Key time interval: | Maastrichtian | ||
Age range of interval: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Hell Creek | ||||
Local section: | Cannonball Creek | Local bed: | 13.00 m | ||
Local order: | top to bottom | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: datum -13.00, K-T section 9734 |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | "channel" |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 45138 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2004-10-07 12:24:12 | Last modified: | 2005-06-09 16:06:49 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-10-07 12:24:12 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
11749. | ETE | D. A. Pearson, T. Schaefer, K. R. Johnson, D. J. Nichols, and J. P. Hunter. 2002. Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Hell Creek Formation in southwestern North Dakota and northwestern South Dakota. In J. H. Hartman, J. R. Johnson, and D. J. Nichols (eds.), The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the Northern Great Plains: An Integrated Continental Record of the End of the Cretaceous, Geological Society of America Special Paper 361:145-167 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |