PTRM V89003: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, North Dakota
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Lonchidiidae
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Lissodus selachos
(Estes 1964)
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6 specimens | |||||||||
original and current combination Lonchidion selachos | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Rajiformes
- Rhinobatidae
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Myledaphus bipartitus
Cope 1876
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58 specimens | |||||||||
unclassified
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Pterosauria indet.
Kaup 1834
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1 specimen | |||||||||
= ? Tetrapoda indet.
Jaekel 1911
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Dalla Vecchia et al. 2013 | |||||||||
"neither pterosaur nor avian" | ||||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
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Caudata indet.
Scopoli 1777
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11 specimens | |||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Urodela
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Urodela indet.
(Duméril 1805)
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Gardner and DeMar 2013 | |||||||||
Habrosaurus dilatus
Gilmore 1928
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Scapherpetontidae informal indet. 1
(Auffenberg and Goin 1959)
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Gardner and DeMar 2013 | |||||||||
"gen. et sp. nov." | ||||||||||
Scapherpeton tectum
Cope 1876
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13 specimens | |||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Albanerpetontidae
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Albanerpetontidae indet.
Fox and Naylor 1982
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Gardner and DeMar 2013 | |||||||||
Mammalia
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Mammalia indet.
(Linnaeus 1758)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Cimolomyidae
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Meniscoessus sp.
Cope 1882
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Meniscoessus robustus
(Marsh 1889)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Cimolodontidae
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Cimolodon nitidus
Marsh 1889
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Stagodontidae
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Didelphodon sp.
Marsh 1889
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Baenidae
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Boremys sp.
Lambe 1906
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Lyson et al. 2011 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Thoracosaurus neocesariensis
(De Kay 1842)
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Brachychampsa montana
Gilmore 1911
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16 specimens | |||||||||
Leidyosuchus sternbergi
(Gilmore 1910)
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91 specimens | |||||||||
recombined as Borealosuchus sternbergii | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Ceratopsidae
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Ceratopsidae indet.
Marsh 1888
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29 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Hadrosaurinae indet.
Lambe 1918
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130 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Thescelosaurus neglectus
Gilmore 1913
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Dromaeosauridae
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Richardoestesia isosceles
Sankey 2001
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Saurornitholestes sp.
Sues 1978
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Paronychodon lacustris
Cope 1876
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3 specimens | |||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Paronychodon | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Caenagnathidae
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Caenagnathidae indet.
Sternberg 1940
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Tyrannosauridae
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Tyrannosaurus rex
Osborn 1905
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4 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Lepidosauria indet.
(Haeckel 1866)
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5 specimens | |||||||||
"lizards" | ||||||||||
Champsosaurus sp.
Cope 1876
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19 specimens | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
- Lepisosteidae
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Lepisosteus occidentalis
(Leidy 1856)
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103 specimens | |||||||||
original and current combination Lepidotus occidentalis | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Amiiformes
- Amiidae
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Kindleia fragosa
Jordan 1927
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203 specimens | |||||||||
recombined as Cyclurus fragosus | ||||||||||
Melvius thomasi
Bryant 1987
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Actinopteri
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Teleostei indet.
(Müller 1846)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Aspidorhynchiformes
- Aspidorhynchidae
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Belonostomus longirostris
(Lambe 1902)
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3 specimens | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | North Dakota | County: | Bowman |
Coordinates: | 46.0° North, 103.8° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 52.2° North, 77.3° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
Altitude: | 975 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: | Mud Buttes | Local bed: | 89.40 m | ||
Local order: | top to bottom | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: datum -89.40, K-T section 9906 |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | crevasse splay |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Disassociated major elements: | many |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | bulk,sieve,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 45102 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano, R. Butler, R. Benson, P. Holroyd | Enterer: | M. Carrano, R. Butler, P. Holroyd, R. Benson |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2004-10-06 07:23:48 | Last modified: | 2022-09-22 09:17:41 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-10-06 07:23:48 |
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] |
Secondary references:
59166 | F. M. Dalla Vecchia, V. Riera, J. O. Oms, J. Dinares-Turell, R. Gaete and A. Galobart. 2013. The last pterosaurs: first record from the uppermost Maastrichtian of the Tremp Syncline (northern Spain). Acta Geologica Sinica 87(5):1198-1227 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
65027 | J. D. Gardner and D. G. DeMar. 2013. Mesozoic and Palaeocene lissamphibian assemblages of North America: a comprehensive review. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 93:459-515 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/M. Carrano] | |
82664 | G. Knauss and A. A. Farke. 2002. Comparison of vertebrate microfossil collection methods in the Late Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation of North Dakota: surface collection vs. screen washing. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(3 (suppl.)):75A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
41937 | T. R. Lyson, W. G. Joyce, G. E. Knauss and D. A. Pearson. 2011. Boremys (Testudines, Baenidae) from the latest Cretaceous and early Paleocene of North Dakota: an 11 million year range extension and an additional K/T survivor. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(4):729-737 [R. Benson/R. Benson] |