1.5 miles up Horse Creek (24 ft) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Torrington

Where: Goshen County, Wyoming (41.9° N, 104.2° W: paleocoordinates 48.4° N, 79.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Torrington Member (Lance Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; green, yellow sandstone and red shale

• "Red, green and yellow finely bedded shales and sandstones"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E. M. Schlaikjer in 1930

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: E. M. Schlaikjer. 1935. Contributions to the stratigraphy and palaeontology of the Goshen Hole area, Wyoming. II. The Torrington Member of the Lance Formation and a study of a new Triceratops. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 7(2):31-68 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 164992: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.01.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Triceratops sp. Marsh 1889 ceratopsid
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
? Trachodon sp.2 Leidy 1856 hadrosaurid
 Crocodylia -
Crocodylia indet.1 Owen 1842 crocodilian
ID fom C. C. Mook to E. M. Schlaikjer
 Testudinata -
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle