north side, Lightning Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Torosaurus latus type, Lance Creek, Hatcher Sk. 19

Where: Niobrara County, Wyoming (43.2° N, 104.6° W: paleocoordinates 49.7° N, 79.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "Laramie"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, concretionary, blue, calcareous sandstone

• "an extremely hard bluish calcareous sandstone concretion"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, concretion

Collected by J. B. Hatcher in 1891; reposited in the YPM

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: O. C. Marsh. 1891. Notice of new vertebrate fossils. The American Journal of Science, series 3 42:265-269 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46134: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 04.01.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
"plant impressions and small lignitized stems"
Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Torosaurus latus n. gen. n. sp.
Torosaurus latus n. gen. n. sp. Marsh 1891 ceratopsid
YPM 1830 (= Sk. 19)