Turtle Hill: Middle Campanian - Late Campanian, Montana

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Alphadontidae
Alphadon halleyi Sahni 1972
specimen apparently omitted from description
Alphadon russelli Fox 1979
1 specimen
Reptilia
Stegoceras validum (Lambe 1902)
Goodwin 1990 1 specimen
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869
Database 2005 1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Montana County:Hill
Coordinates: 48.9° North, 110.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:56.2° North, 76.2° West
Basis of coordinate:unpublished field data
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Campanian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 7
*Epoch:Senonian
Key time interval: Middle Campanian - Late Campanian
Age range of interval: 83.6 - 72.1 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Montana Formation:Judith River
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Judithian based on fauna
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:UCMP
Taxonomic list comments:NISP uncertain
Metadata
Also known as:Canadian Coulee West; UCMP V-78092
Database number:14491
Authorizer:J. Alroy, M. Carrano Enterer:J. Alroy, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:1994-04-30 00:00:00 Last modified:2016-05-18 15:37:29
Access level:the public Released:1994-04-30 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2602. M. Montellano. 1992. Mammalian fauna of the Judith River Formation (Late Cretaceous, Judithian), northcentral Montana. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 136:1-115 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
13103 U.C.M.P. Database. 2005. UCMP collections database. University of California Museum of Paleontology [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13582ETE M. B. Goodwin. 1990. Morphometric landmarks of pachycephalosaurid cranial material from the Judith River Formation of northcentral Montana. In K. Carpenter and P. J. Currie (eds.), Dinosaur Systematics: Perspectives and Approaches, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 189-201 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]