Badger Creek, MOR TM-065/065S: Campanian, Montana
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Hypacrosaurus stebingeri n. sp.
Horner and Currie 1994
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2 individuals | |||||||||
| MOR 562, 549 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Montana | County: | Glacier |
| Coordinates: | 48.5° North, 112.6° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 56.1° North, 77.9° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| Key time interval: | Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Montana | Formation: | Two Medicine | Member: | Upper |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Found in the uppermost 100 m of the 650 m formation; about 80 m below the contact with the Bearpaw. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray,green mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "greenish-grey mudstone" | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Associated major elements: | many |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collection method comments: isolated embryonic or nepionic individual, plus type adult skeleton | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 53052 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | K. Maguire |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-09-01 16:39:47 | Last modified: | 2015-04-10 13:37:09 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-09-01 16:39:47 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 12559. | ETE | J. R. Horner and P. J. Currie. 1994. Embryonic and neonatal morphology and ontogeny of a new species of Hypacrosaurus (Ornithischia, Lambeosauridae) from Montana and Alberta. In K. Carpenter, K. F. Hirsch, and J. R. Horner (eds.), Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 312-336 [A. Behrensmeyer/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 54993 | K. S. Brink, D. K. Zelenitsky, D. C. Evans, J. R. Horner, and F. Therrien. 2014. Cranial morphology and variation in Hypacrosaurus stebingeri (Ornithischia: Hadrosauridae). In D. A. Eberth & D. C. Evans (ed.), Hadrosaurs 245-265 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 27955 | ETE | L. N. Cooper, A. H. Lee, M. L. Taper and J. R. Horner. 2008. Relative growth rates of predator and prey dinosaurs reflect effects of predation. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |