First Find Microsite (OTM 99-19) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Seven Mile Hill, Sevenmile Hill, Old Trail Museum egg locality

Where: Teton County, Montana (47.7° N, 112.2° W: paleocoordinates 55.4° N, 78.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Two Medicine Formation, Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• near Old Train Museum, just above underlying crystal tuff dated at 80.0 ± 0.1 Ma

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 1999

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

Primary reference: J. R. Horner, J. G. Schmitt, F. Jackson and R. Hanna. 2001. Bones and rocks of the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine-Judith River clastic wedge complex, Montana. In C. L. Hill (ed), Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 61st Annual Meeting, Bozeman. Guidebook for the Field Trips: Mesozoic and Cenozoic Paleontology in the Western Plains and Rocky Mountains, Museum of the Rockies Occasional Paper 3:3-13 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94368: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.02.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata - Krokolithidae
Krokolithes sp. Hirsch 1985 crocodile eggshell
ES 147
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842 dinosaur
ornithoid ratite type eggs, 2 types
 Ornithischia - Spheroolithidae
Spheroolithus choteauensis Jackson and Varricchio 2010 ornithopod
spherulitic eggs
 Theropoda - Elongatoolithidae
Continuoolithus canadensis Zelenitsky et al. 1996 theropod
 Theropoda -
Tubercuoolithus tetonensis n. gen. n. sp. Jackson and Varricchio 2010 theropod
ES 110, 145, 150, 165, 173, 174
Triprismatoolithus stephensi Jackson and Varricchio 2010 theropod
ES 127
  - Prismatoolithidae
Prismatoolithus hirschi n. sp. Jackson and Varricchio 2010 dinosaur
prismatic eggs