PTRM V97002, Cannonball Creek: Maastrichtian, North Dakota

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Tyrannosauridae
Tyrannosaurus rex Osborn 1905
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]