Owl Creek (UCM Loc. 80013): Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Colorado
collected by Maxson

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Baenidae
Plesiobaena cf. antiqua (Lambe 1902)
Hutchison and Holroyd 2003
Reptilia - Ceratopsidae
Ceratopsidae indet. Marsh 1888
Carpenter and Young 2002 1 specimen
UCM 43699, braincase
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869
1 individual
UCM 18953, pair of maxillae
    = Edmontosaurus sp. Lambe 1917
Carpenter and Young 2002
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Colorado County:Weld
Coordinates: 40.9° North, 104.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.5° North, 80.5° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:1728 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:Laramie
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Disassociated major elements:all
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:UCM
Collectors:Maxson
Collection method comments: collected by Mr. Maxson of Longmont, material not at University of Colorado
Metadata
Also known as:L&W locality 43, Lone Tree Creek, Loc. 2
Database number:46210
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Holroyd Enterer:M. Carrano, P. Holroyd
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-01-07 14:13:40 Last modified:2023-01-19 14:05:22
Access level:the public Released:2005-01-07 14:13:40
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

12319.ETE R. S. Lull and N. E. Wright. 1942. Hadrosaurian dinosaurs of North America. Geological Society of America Special Paper 40:1-242 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

13266ETE K. Carpenter and D. B. Young. 2002. Late Cretaceous dinosaurs from the Denver Basin, Colorado. Rocky Mountain Geology 37(2):237-254 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14441ETE P. A. Holroyd and J. H. Hutchison. 2002. Late Cretaceous and Early Paleocene turtle biogeography: new data from the Denver Basin, Colorado. GSA Abstracts with Programs [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Holroyd]
26071 J. H. Hutchison and P. A. Holroyd. 2003. Late Cretaceous and early Paleocene turtles of the Denver Basin, Colorado. Rocky Mountain Geology 38(1):121-142 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]