Schneider Creek [BMNH] (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Niobrara County, Wyoming (43.3° N, 104.5° W: paleocoordinates 49.8° N, 79.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. H. Sternberg in 1908–1909; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: Anonymous. 1911. [A fine skull of the horned Dinosaur, Triceratops prorsus]. Nature 87(2183):301 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 189513: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.10.2017

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Triceratops prorsus Marsh 1890 ceratopsid
BMNH R.3886, skull