Where: Montana (45.3° N, 108.4° W: paleocoordinates 44.6° N, 66.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Himes Member (Cloverly Formation), Middle Albian to Middle Albian (109.0 - 93.5 Ma)
• Ostrom's Unit VII
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•D'Emic et al. 2019: In the mid–late Albian to early Cenomanian (ca. 109–98 Ma), sediment sourced from the east was deposited as the Himes Member and Greybull Sandstone.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected in 1992
Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), surface (in situ), sieve,
Primary reference: W. D. Maxwell. 1993. Neonate dinosaur remains and dinosaur eggshell from the Lower Cretaceous Cloverly Formation, Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 13(3, suppl.):49A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 55246: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 03.10.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gnathostomata | |
Osteichthyes indet. bony fish | |
Osteichthyes | |
Ceratodus sp. Agassiz 1838 lungfish | |
Mammalia | |
Triconodontidae indet. Marsh 1887 mammal | |
Reptilia | |
cf. Naomichelys sp. Hay 1908 turtle | |
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Microvenator sp. Ostrom 1970 maniraptoran | |
Deinonychus sp. Ostrom 1969 maniraptoran | |
Sauropelta sp. Ostrom 1970 ankylosaur | |
Hypsilophodontidae indet. hypsilophodontid | |
Sauropoda indet. sauropod | |
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Pseudohypolophus sp. Cappetta and Case 1975 guitarfish | |
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
unclassified | |
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866 |