Where: Montana (48.5° N, 112.7° W: paleocoordinates 56.2° N, 78.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Member (Two Medicine Formation), Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; mudstone and lithified, lenticular sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, trace
Reposited in the TMP
Primary reference: D. K. Zelenitsky and F. Therrien. 2008. Unique maniraptoran egg clutch from the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Montana reveals theropod nesting behaviour. Palaeontology 51(6):1253-1259 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 138573: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 21.01.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Montanoolithus strongorum n. gen. n. sp.
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