Clam Hollow: Lancian, Montana

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes
Osteichthyes indet. Huxley 1880
Database 2005 2 specimens
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843
Database 2005 3 specimens
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Amiidae
Melvius thomasi Bryant 1987
Database 2005 7 specimens
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Cimolomyidae
Essonodon browni Simpson 1927
2 specimens
Reptilia
Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768
Database 2005 1 specimen
Reptilia - Testudines
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788
Database 2005 1 specimen
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825
Database 2005 1 specimen
Reptilia - Baenidae
Baenidae indet. Cope 1882
Database 2005 1 specimen
Reptilia
Dinosauria indet. (Owen 1842)
Database 2005 1 specimen
eggshell
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869
Database 2005 1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Montana County:Garfield
Coordinates: 47.6° North, 107.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:54.4° North, 80.1° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
*Epoch:Senonian
Key time interval:Lancian
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Hell Creek
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:UCMP
Metadata
Also known as:UCMP V-76138
Database number:14520
Authorizer:J. Alroy, M. Carrano Enterer:J. Alroy, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-05-15 00:00:00 Last modified:2009-06-19 17:22:33
Access level:the public Released:2002-05-15 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

960. J. D. Archibald. 1982. A study of Mammalia and geology across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in Garfield County, Montana. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 122:1-286 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

13103 U.C.M.P. Database. 2005. UCMP collections database. University of California Museum of Paleontology [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]