divide between Cow Creek and Lightning Creek: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Wyoming
collected by J. B. Hatcher 1891

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Ceratopsidae
Torosaurus gladius n. sp. Marsh 1891
1 individual
synonym of Torosaurus latus
YPM 1831 (= Sk. 19A)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Niobrara
Coordinates: 43.2° North, 104.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.7° North, 79.5° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Late/Upper Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Lance
Local section:Lull Lance Creek Local bed:3
Local order:top to bottom
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "Laramie"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Associated major elements:all
Fragmentation:frequent
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:YPM
Collectors:J. B. Hatcher Collection dates:1891
Metadata
Also known as:Torosaurus gladius type, Lance Creek, Hatcher Sk. 19A
Database number:46135
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-01-04 12:32:58 Last modified:2022-10-18 15:07:59
Access level:the public Released:2005-01-04 12:32:58
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
12251.ETE O. C. Marsh. 1891. Notice of new vertebrate fossils. The American Journal of Science, series 3 42:265-269 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

14362ETE E. H. Colbert and J. D. Bump. 1947. A skull of Torosaurus from South Dakota and a revision of the genus. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 99:93-106 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
12304ETE J. B. Hatcher, O. C. Marsh, and R. S. Lull. 1907. The Ceratopsia. Monographs of the United States Geological Survey 49:1-198 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14177ETE R. S. Lull. 1915. The mammals and horned dinosaurs of the Lance Formation of Niobrara County, Wyoming. The American Journal of Science, series 4 40(238):319-348 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
12314ETE R. S. Lull. 1933. A revision of the Ceratopsia or horned dinosaurs. Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 3(3):1-175 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55599 J. H. Ostrom and P. Wellnhofer. 1986. The Munich specimen of Triceratops with a revision of the genus. Zitteliana 14:111-158 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13014ETE R. M. Sullivan, A. C. Boere, and S. G. Lucas. 2005. Redescription of the ceratopsid dinosaur Torosaurus utahensis (Gilmore, 1946) and a revision of the genus. Journal of Paleontology 79(3):564-582 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]