Dakotaraptor Quarry, Bone Butte (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Harding County, South Dakota (45.2° N, 103.2° W: paleocoordinates 51.4° N, 77.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hell Creek Formation (Montana Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; fine-grained, medium sandstone

• "medium- to fine-grained sandstone with clay-pebble laminae"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by R. DePalma in 2005

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: R. A. DePalma, D. A. Burnham, L. D. Martin, P. L. Larson, and R. T. Bakker. 2015. The first giant raptor (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridae) from the Hell Creek Formation. The University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions 14:1-16 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174241: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.11.2015, edited by Patricia Holroyd

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Dakotaraptor steini n. gen. n. sp.
Dakotaraptor steini n. gen. n. sp. DePalma et al. 2015 maniraptoran
PBMNH.P10.113.T, 115.T, 118.T, 119.T, 121.T, 122.T, 124.T; NCSM 13170; KUVP 152429, 156045
 Testudines - Trionychidae
"cf. Axestemys splendida" = Axestemys splendidus
"cf. Axestemys splendida" = Axestemys splendidus Hay 1908 softshell turtle
part of PBMNH.P10.113.T, NCSM 13170, possibly KUVP 15249