Oak Place, Westminster (DMNH Loc. 1513) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Loc. 20

Where: Arapahoe County, Colorado (39.8° N, 105.0° W: paleocoordinates 46.5° N, 81.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the DMNH

Collection methods: salvage,

• discovered by Alan Nolan

Primary reference: K. Carpenter and D. B. Young. 2002. Late Cretaceous dinosaurs from the Denver Basin, Colorado. Rocky Mountain Geology 37(2):237-254 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 49539: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.04.2005, edited by Patricia Holroyd

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines -
 Testudines - Pantrionychidae
"Plastomeninae indet." = Plastomenidae, Helopanoplia cf. distincta
"Plastomeninae indet." = Plastomenidae Hay 1902 turtle
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle
 Testudines - Nanhsiungchelyidae
Basilemys cf. sinuosa Riggs 1906 turtle
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Ceratopsidae indet. Marsh 1888 ceratopsid
DMNH 25915, partial skull; DMNH 27743, 27744, 29951, 33301, teeth; DMNH 34291, mandible; DMNH 34391, partial skull; DMNH 34392, horn section
 Ornithischia -
cf. Pachycephalosaurus sp. Brown and Schlaikjer 1943 ornithischian
DMNH 32649, partial skullcap
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
DMNH 29475, 32828, 34341, teeth
 Ornithischia -
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
Edmontonia sp. Sternberg 1928 ankylosaur
DMNH 25915, scute; DMNH 44389, tooth
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Dromaeosaurus sp. Matthew and Brown 1922 maniraptoran
DMNH 44386, tooth
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
Tyrannosauridae indet. Osborn 1906 tyrannosaurid
DMNH 27742, 33302, teeth
Tyrannosaurus rex Osborn 1905 tyrant lizard king
DMNH 32825, tooth