Through the End of the Cretaceous in the Type Locality of the Hell Creek Formation in Montana and Adjacent Areas

Paleobiological implications of a Triceratops bonebed from the Hell Creek Formation, Garfield County, northeastern Montana
-
Published:January 01, 2014
-
CiteCitation
Sarah W. Keenan, John B. Scannella, 2014. "Paleobiological implications of a Triceratops bonebed from the Hell Creek Formation, Garfield County, northeastern Montana", Through the End of the Cretaceous in the Type Locality of the Hell Creek Formation in Montana and Adjacent Areas, Gregory P. Wilson, William A. Clemens, John R. Horner, Joseph H. Hartman
Download citation file:
- Share
-
Tools
Ceratopsid dinosaurs are notable for their common occurrences in bonebeds; however, until recently, these have not been encountered for the chasmosaurine Triceratops. The aim of this investigation is to describe the taphonomy of Quittin' Time (Museum of the Rockies locality HC-430), a Triceratops bonebed in the Hell Creek Formation, Garfield County, Montana. Using site taphonomic descriptions with an evaluation of ontogeny, inferences regarding the paleobiology of this extinct taxon are possible. The locality is associated with abundant organic material, including woody debris, large seeds, and other fragments in isolated silty lenses, all incorporated within a siltstone matrix, indicating preservation...
- Archosauria
- bone beds
- bones
- Cenozoic
- Ceratopsia
- Ceratopsidae
- Chordata
- clastic rocks
- Cretaceous
- Diapsida
- dinosaurs
- fluvial environment
- Garfield County Montana
- Hell Creek Formation
- juvenile taxa
- K-T boundary
- lower Paleocene
- Mesozoic
- Montana
- ontogeny
- organic compounds
- Ornithischia
- paleobiology
- Paleocene
- Paleogene
- preservation
- Reptilia
- sedimentary rocks
- siltstone
- stratigraphic boundary
- taphonomy
- Tertiary
- Tetrapoda
- Triceratops
- United States
- Upper Cretaceous
- Vertebrata
- northeastern Montana
- Quittin' Time Bonebed