RAM locality V200029 (PROXY): Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Montana
collected by Alf Museum crew 2000
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Edmontosaurus annectens
(Marsh 1892)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| RAM 9396, femur | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Montana | County: | McCone |
| Coordinates: | 47.7° North, 106.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 54.3° North, 79.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Altitude: | 731 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Hell Creek | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: upper part of formation | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: basal lag of a channel sandstone | |
| Environment: | coarse channel fill |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Disassociated major elements: | all |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | Alf Museum crew | Collection dates: | 2000 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 202036 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2019-06-18 13:12:53 | Last modified: | 2019-06-18 13:12:53 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-06-18 13:12:53 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 69212. | A. A. Farke and E. Yip. 2019. A juvenile cf. Edmontosaurus annectens (Ornithischia, Hadrosauridae) femur documents a previously unreported intermediate growth stage for this taxon. Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology 7:59-67 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |