near Whitewood, SDSM V751: Valanginian, South Dakota
collected by D. Rossow
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Iguanodontidae indet.
Bonaparte 1850
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1 individual | |||||||||
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= Iguanodon lakotaensis n. sp.
Weishampel and Bjork 1989
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Weishampel and Bjork 1989 | |||||||||
| recombined as Dakotadon lakotaensis | ||||||||||
| SDSM 8656 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | South Dakota | County: | Lawrence |
| Coordinates: | 44.5° North, 103.6° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.6° North, 51.8° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Valanginian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 1 |
| Key time interval: | Valanginian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 139.80000 - 132.60000 m.y. ago |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Associated major elements: | all |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | SDSM |
| Collectors: | D. Rossow |
| Collection method comments: Collected by Dale Rossow while "hunting rattlesnakes on a hogback formed by the Lakota Formation near Sturgis." Presented to Drs. John Willard and Morton Green, then to P. R. Bjork. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 49375 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-04-14 11:29:11 | Last modified: | 2015-01-14 15:34:07 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-04-14 11:29:11 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 54024. | P. R. Bjork. 1985. A new iguanodontid dinosaur from the Lakota Formation of the northern Black Hills of South Dakota. In A. E. Leviton, M. L. Aldrich, & H. Chambers (eds.), Proceedings of the Pacific Division, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Program with Abstracts of the 66th Annual Meeting 4(1):22 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 50540 | K. Carpenter and Y. Ishida. 2010. Early and "middle" Cretaceous iguanodonts in time and space. Journal of Iberian Geology 36(2):145-164 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 13187 | ETE | D. B. Weishampel and P. R. Bjork. 1989. The first indisputable remains of Iguanodon (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) from North America: Iguanodon lakotaensis, sp. nov. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 9(1):56-66 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |