Dracorex type site: Maastrichtian, South Dakota
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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Dracorex hogwartsia n. gen., n. sp.
Bakker et al. 2006
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1 individual | |||||||||
synonym of Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis | ||||||||||
TCMI 2004.17.1 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | South Dakota |
Coordinates: | 45.1° North, 102.1° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 52.1° North, 75.8° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||
Altitude: | 25 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 | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: middle part of formation |
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Associated major elements: | all |
Fragmentation: | occasional |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 58813 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2006-02-24 14:25:55 | Last modified: | 2006-11-30 16:21:47 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-02-24 14:25:55 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
19309. | ETE | R. T. Bakker, R. M. Sullivan, V. Porter, P. Larson, and S. J. Saulsbury. 2006. Dracorex hogwartsia, n. gen., n. sp., a spiked, flat-headed pachycephalosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation of South Dakota. In S. G. Lucas and R. M. Sullivan (eds.), Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35:331-345 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |