Also known as Nanotyrannus type
Where: Carter County, Montana (45.5° N, 104.2° W: paleocoordinates 51.9° N, 77.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Hell Creek Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• described as "Lance Formation, Hell Creek Member"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by D. H. Dunkle in 1942
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1946. A new carnivorous dinosaur from the Lance Formation of Montana. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 106(13):1-19 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 54002: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.09.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Gorgosaurus lancensis n. sp." = Tyrannosaurus rex
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