Turtle City, UCMP V-88027: Maastrichtian, Montana

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Stagodontidae
Didelphodon sp. Marsh 1889
2 specimens
Reptilia - Baenidae
Eubaena sp. Hay 1908
1 specimen
Reptilia
Stygimoloch spinifer Galton and Sues 1983
1 specimen
synonym of Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis
UCMP 147063
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Montana County:Carter
Coordinates: 45.9° North, 104.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:52.4° North, 78.0° West
Basis of coordinate:unpublished field data
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
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Disassociated major elements:all
Fragmentation:extreme
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:UCMP
Metadata
Database number:48846
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-03-31 08:03:46 Last modified:2005-03-31 11:03:46
Access level:the public Released:2005-03-31 08:03:44
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

13015.ETE M. B. Goodwin, E. A. Buccholtz, and R. E. Johnson. 1998. Cranial anatomy and diagnosis of Stygimoloch spinifer (Ornithischia: Pachycephalosauria) with comments on cranial display structures in agonistic behavior. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(2):363-375 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]