MOR JR-168, Fanny Hill: Middle Campanian, Montana
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Acipenseriformes
- Acipenseridae
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Psammorhynchus longipinnis n. sp.
Grande and Hilton 2006
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1 individual | |||||||||
recombined as Priscosturion longipinnis | ||||||||||
MOR 1184 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Hadrosauridae indet.
Cope 1869
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1 individual | |||||||||
"hadrosaur" | ||||||||||
= Brachylophosaurus goodwini
Horner 1988
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Prieto-Marquéz 2000 | |||||||||
synonym of Brachylophosaurus canadensis | ||||||||||
MOR 794 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Montana | County: | Phillips |
Coordinates: | 48.6° North, 107.8° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 55.2° North, 73.3° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
Key time interval: | Middle Campanian | ||
Age range of interval: | 83.50000 - 70.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Montana | Formation: | Judith River | Member: | McClelland Ferry |
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: lower/regressive part of formation, near contact w/Claggett Fm., estimated at approx. 78 Ma |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | poorly lithified sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "soft, loosely consolidated sandstone" | |
Environment: | fluvial-deltaic indet. |
Glacial or sequence phase: | regressive |
Geology comments: "freshwater or estuarine" |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Spatial orientation: | life position |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | excellent |
Articulated whole bodies: | all |
Fragmentation: | occasional |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 69281 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2007-02-23 11:15:45 | Last modified: | 2022-09-27 16:03:19 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-02-23 11:15:45 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
19968. | ETE | L. Grande and E. J. Hilton. 2006. An exquisitely preserved skeleton representing a primitive sturgeon from the Upper Cretaceous Judith River Formation of Montana (Acipenseriformes: Acipenseridae: n. gen. and sp.). The Paleontological Society Memoir 65, Journal of Paleontology 80(4, suppl.):1-39 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
82729 | A. Prieto-Marquéz. 2000. On the postcrania of Brachylophosaurus goodwini (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda): implications for hadrosaur morphology. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(3 (suppl.)):63A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |