North Platte River, Medicine Bow Fauna (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as L&W locality 32

Where: Carbon County, Wyoming (42.1° N, 106.9° W: paleocoordinates 49.0° N, 82.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by L. Lamotte, J. B. Hatcher, F. Knowlton in 1888, 1910; reposited in the UNSM

Primary reference: J. B. Hatcher. 1896. Some localities for Laramie mammals and horned dinosaurs. The American Naturalist 3(350):112-120 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52089: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 21.07.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Triceratops sp. Marsh 1889 ceratopsid
"horned dinosaurs"