Where: Slope County, North Dakota (46.4° N, 103.0° W: paleocoordinates 52.6° N, 75.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Hell Creek Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• datum -13.00, K-T section 9734
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "channel"; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. A. Pearson, T. Schaefer, K. R. Johnson, D. J. Nichols, and J. P. Hunter. 2002. Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Hell Creek Formation in southwestern North Dakota and northwestern South Dakota. In J. H. Hartman, J. R. Johnson, and D. J. Nichols (eds.), The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the Northern Great Plains: An Integrated Continental Record of the End of the Cretaceous, Geological Society of America Special Paper 361:145-167 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 45138: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 07.10.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Tyrannosaurus rex Osborn 1905 tyrant lizard king |