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Canyon Bonebed, Glacier County, Montana, USA

Lat/Long (Decimal)48.9666,-112.65
Co-ordinates Derivationbased on nearby landmark
Given LocationMontana, United States
Mindat.org Region (for given coordinates)Glacier County, Montana, USA

Collections

CollectionReferenceStratigraphic NameCommentsLithologyAge
Canyon Bonebed, MOR TM-046Rogers R. R. (1991)Montana - Two Medicine - Upperupper part of formation; specimens from bonebed plus one downslope (MOR 492)siltstone83.6 - 72.1 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Dino Ridge Quarry, MOR TM-023Rogers R. R. (1991)Montana - Two Medicine - UpperETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: 0 radiometric intage_min; upper part of formationsiltstone83.6 - 72.1 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Recorded Fossils

Accepted NameHierarchyAge
Ankylosauridae
family
Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Ankylosauridae83.6 - 72.1 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Euoplocephalus sp.
genus
Animalia : Chordata : Ornithischia : Ankylosauridae : Euoplocephalus83.6 - 72.1 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Brachyceratops
83.6 - 72.1 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Einiosaurus procurvicornis
species
Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Ceratopsidae : Einiosaurus : Einiosaurus procurvicornis83.6 - 72.1 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Rubeosaurus ovatus
species
Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Ceratopsidae : Rubeosaurus : Rubeosaurus ovatus83.6 - 72.1 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Hadrosauridae
family
Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Hadrosauridae83.6 - 72.1 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Nodosauridae
family
Animalia : Chordata : Ornithischia : Nodosauridae83.6 - 72.1 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Ceratopsia
unranked clade
Animalia : Chordata : Ornithischia : Ceratopsia83.6 - 72.1 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Ornithomimidae
family
Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Avetheropoda : Ornithomimidae83.6 - 72.1 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Theropoda
unranked clade
Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Theropoda83.6 - 72.1 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

References

Rogers R. R. (1991) Taphonomy of three dinosaur bone beds in the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Northwestern Monana: evidence for drought-related mortality, Palaios 5, 394-413
Sampson S. D. (1994) Two new horned dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) from the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation, Montana, USA, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14 3, suppl., 44A
Sampson S. D. (1995) Two new horned dinosaurs from the upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Montana; with a phylogenetic analysis of the Centrosaurinae (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae), Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14 5, 743-760
Database M. O. R. (2006) MOR collections database
McDonald A. T., Horner J. R. (2010) New material of "Styracosaurus" ovatus from the Two Medicine Formation of Montana, New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 156-168
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!
 
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