PTRM V91007, Doaks Butte: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, North Dakota

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosaurinae indet. Lambe 1918
11 specimens
Reptilia
Thescelosaurus neglectus Gilmore 1913
1 specimen
Paronychodon lacustris Cope 1876
2 specimens
nomen dubium belonging to Paronychodon
Reptilia - Dromaeosauridae
Richardoestesia isosceles Sankey 2001
1 specimen
Saurornitholestes sp. Sues 1978
1 specimen
Reptilia
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
Reptilia - Tyrannosauridae
Tyrannosaurus rex Osborn 1905
1 specimen
Reptilia
Leidyosuchus sternbergi (Gilmore 1910)
26 specimens
recombined as Borealosuchus sternbergii
Brachychampsa montana Gilmore 1911
2 specimens
Lepidosauria indet. (Haeckel 1866)
1 specimen
Mammalia
Mammalia indet. (Linnaeus 1758)
2 specimens
Theria indet. Parker and Haswell 1897
3 specimens
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Batrachosauroididae
Opisthotriton kayi Auffenberg 1961
2 specimens
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteus occidentalis (Leidy 1856)
36 specimens
original and current combination Lepidotus occidentalis
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Amiidae
Kindleia fragosa Jordan 1927
28 specimens
recombined as Cyclurus fragosus
Actinopteri - Aspidorhynchiformes - Aspidorhynchidae
Belonostomus longirostris (Lambe 1902)
3 specimens
Actinopteri
Teleostei indet. (Müller 1846)
3 specimens
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae
Myledaphus bipartitus Cope 1876
111 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:North Dakota County:Bowman
Coordinates: 45.9° North, 104.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:52.2° North, 77.5° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:891 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Late/Upper Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:70.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Hell Creek
Local section:Doaks Butte Local bed:80.16 m
Local order:top to bottom
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: datum -80.16, K-T section 9906,
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:"channel"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:45098
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-10-06 06:50:46 Last modified:2022-02-01 07:47:24
Access level:the public Released:2004-10-06 06:50:46
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11749.ETE D. A. Pearson, T. Schaefer, K. R. Johnson, D. J. Nichols, and J. P. Hunter. 2002. Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Hell Creek Formation in southwestern North Dakota and northwestern South Dakota. In J. H. Hartman, J. R. Johnson, and D. J. Nichols (eds.), The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the Northern Great Plains: An Integrated Continental Record of the End of the Cretaceous, Geological Society of America Special Paper 361:145-167 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]