Big Game Ridge, Yellowstone NP (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Teton County, Wyoming (44.1° N, 110.4° W: paleocoordinates 51.8° N, 84.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Harebell Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• from unit 29; 2300 ft (700 m) above base of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; gray, green claystone

• "Claystone, olive-drab, gray- and tan-weathering"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. D. Love; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: A. Chapler. 1967. Dinosaurs in Yellowstone Park. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 575-A:A120 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 165887: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.01.2015, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
cf. Tyrannosaurus sp.
cf. Tyrannosaurus sp. Osborn 1905 tyrant lizard
tooth; ID G. E. Lewis