ammonites
MOR TM-013, Landslide Butte (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Glacier County, Montana (48.9° N, 112.6° W: paleocoordinates 56.6° N, 78.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Two Medicine Formation (Montana Group), Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: mechanical,

Primary reference: D. J. Varricchio. 2001. Late Cretaceous oviraptorosaur (Theropoda) dinosaurs from Montana. D. H. Tanke and K. Carpenter (eds.), Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, Indiana University Press, Bloomington 42-57 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59373: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 29.03.2006, edited by Matt Carrano

MOR TM-013, Landslide Butte: Campanian, Montana

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Choristodera
Champsosaurus sp. Cope 1876
Database 2006 1 specimen
Reptilia - Dinosauria
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842
Database 2006 2 specimens
Ornithischia indet. Seeley 1888
Database 2006 1 specimen
eggshell
Reptilia - Dinosauria - Ankylosauridae
Ankylosauridae indet. Brown 1908
Database 2006 4 specimens
Reptilia - Dinosauria - Nodosauridae
Nodosauridae indet. Marsh 1890
Database 2006 1 specimen
Reptilia - Dinosauria - Pachycephalosauridae
Pachycephalosauridae indet. Sternberg 1945
Database 2006 1 specimen
Reptilia - Dinosauria
Ceratopsia indet. Marsh 1890
Database 2006 4 specimens
Reptilia - Dinosauria - Ceratopsidae
Centrosaurinae indet. Lambe 1915
Database 2006 1 specimen
Einiosaurus procurvicornis Sampson 1994
Database 2006 15 specimens
Reptilia - Dinosauria - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1870
Database 2006 10 specimens
Lambeosaurinae indet. Parks 1923
Database 2006 1 specimen
Hypacrosaurus stebingeri Horner and Currie 1994
Database 2006 2 specimens
Reptilia - Dinosauria
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
Database 2006 8 specimens
Reptilia - Avetheropoda
Carnosauria indet. Huene 1920
Database 2006 1 specimen
Reptilia - Dinosauria - Caenagnathidae
Caenagnathus sternbergi Cracraft 1971
1 specimen
synonym of Chirostenotes elegans
MOR 1107
Reptilia - Dinosauria - Troodontidae
Troodon cf. formosus Leidy 1856
Database 2006 3 specimens
Reptilia - Dinosauria
Paronychodon sp. Cope 1876
Database 2006 1 specimen
Reptilia - Testudines - Nanhsiungchelyidae
Basilemys sp. Hay 1902
Database 2006 1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Montana County:Glacier
Coordinates: 48.9° North, 112.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:56.6° North, 78.5° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:1236 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Campanian
Age range of interval:83.5 - 70.6 m.y. ago
Age estimate:73.9 to 73.7 Ma (AEO)
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Montana Formation:Two Medicine
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:59373
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:K. Maguire, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:ETE,vertebrate
Created:2006-03-29 12:51:46 Last modified:2006-07-19 05:30:50
Access level:the public Released:2006-03-29 12:51:46
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Reference information
Primary reference:
16613ETE D. J. Varricchio. 2001. Late Cretaceous oviraptorosaur (Theropoda) dinosaurs from Montana. D. H. Tanke and K. Carpenter (eds.), Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, Indiana University Press, Bloomington 42-57 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

17718ETE M.O.R. Database. 2006. [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]