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Billy Creek 1, Garfield County, Montana, USA
Lat/Long (Decimal) | 47.6167,-107.317 |
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Co-ordinates Derivation | unpublished field data |
Given Location | Montana, United States |
Mindat.org Region (for given coordinates) | Garfield County, Montana, USA |
Collections
Collection | Reference | Stratigraphic Name | Comments | Lithology | Age |
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Billy Creek 1 (Puercan) | Archibald J. D. (1982) | Hell Creek | paleomagnetic sections are given by Archibald et al. 1982 and Swisher et al. 1995 but are not very helpful because the locality is from a channel sandstone deeply incised into the formation | sandstone | 66 - 63.3 Ma Paleocene |
Billy Creek 1 | Database UCMP (2005) | Hell Creek | sandstone | 70.6 - 66 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
Billy Creek 2 | Archibald J. D. (1982) | Hell Creek | sandstone | 70.6 - 66 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Recorded Fossils
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!