west slope, Como Bluff (YPM): Middle Cenomanian, Wyoming
collected by W. Reed 1881

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Nodosauridae
Nodosaurus textilis n. gen., n. sp. Marsh 1889
1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Albany
Coordinates: 42.9° North, 105.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.8° North, 66.6° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Cenomanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 5
*Period:Late/Upper Cretaceous
*International age/stage:Middle Cenomanian
Key time interval:Middle Cenomanian
Age range of interval:99.60000 - 93.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Frontier Member:Belle Fourche
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: described as "about 400 feet above the Dakota sandstone".
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:concretionary not reported
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "nodular horizon"
Environment:marginal marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:YPM
Collectors:W. Reed Collection dates:1881
Metadata
Also known as:Nodosaurus type
Database number:28437
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2003-02-13 13:51:18 Last modified:2017-08-02 10:17:24
Access level:the public Released:2003-02-13 13:51:18
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

7835. O. C. Marsh. 1889. Notice of gigantic horned Dinosauria from the Cretaceous. American Journal of Science 38:173-175 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

7836 K. Carpenter and J. I. Kirkland. 1998. Review of Lower and middle Cretaceous ankylosaurs from North America. Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems, S. G. Lucas, J. I. Kirkland & J. W. Estep (eds.). New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 14:249-270 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
62949 E. Hennig. 1915. Fossilium Catalogus. I: Animalia. Pars 9: Stegosauria 1-16 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14178ETE R. S. Lull. 1921. The Cretaceous armored dinosaur, Nodosaurus textilis Marsh. The American Journal of Science, series 5 1(2):97-126 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]