Fort Peck Reservoir (MOR BS-104) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as MOR locality BS-104; MOR BS 104

Where: Valley County, Montana (47.8° N, 106.7° W: paleocoordinates 54.1° N, 71.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bearpaw Shale Formation, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected in 1988

Primary reference: R. S. Cuthbertson and R. B. Holmes. 2015. A new species of Plioplatecarpus (Mosasauridae, Plioplatecarpinae) from the Bearpaw Formation (Campanian, Upper Cretaceous) of Montana, USA. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(3):e922980:1-18 [G. Liggett/G. Liggett/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194178: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 15.06.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Plioplatecarpus peckensis n. sp.
Plioplatecarpus peckensis n. sp. Cuthbertson and Holmes 2015 mosasaur
MOR 1062 (holotype), disarticulated skull, 26 vertebrae, most of which form an articulated series, and rib fragments