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Telegraph Creek Formation

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Telegraph Creek Formation
Stratigraphic range: Santonian
TypeGeological formation
Location
RegionMontana
CountryUnited States

The Telegraph Creek Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation in Montana, United States. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, although none have yet been referred to a specific genus.[1]

Fossil content

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Invertebrates

Invertebrates reported from the Telegraph Creek Formation
Genus Species Locality Stratigraphic member Material Notes Images
Sphenoceramus[2]
  • S.cardissoides
  • S.lundbreckensis[3]
Desmoscaphites[4] D.bassleri

Vertebrates

Vertebrates reported from the Telegraph Creek Formation
Genus Species Locality Stratigraphic member Material Notes Images
Tylosaurus T.proriger[5] Skull
Hadrosauridae[1] indet

See also

  • List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
    • List of stratigraphic units with indeterminate dinosaur fossils

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
  2. ↑ Walaszczyk, Cobban, I, WA (2006). "Palaeontology and biostratigraphy of the Middle-Upper Coniacian and Santonian inoceramids of the US Western Interior". Acta Geologica Polonica 56 (3). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286250061_Palaeontology_and_biostratigraphy_of_the_Middle-Upper_Coniacian_and_Santonian_inoceramids_of_the_US_Western_Interior. 
  3. ↑ "USGS 9625 (Cretaceous of the United States)". https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicCollectionSearch?collection_no=100155&is_real_user=. 
  4. ↑ Landman, Neil H.; Cobban, William A. (2007-01-01). "Redescription of the Late Cretaceous (late Santonian) ammonite Desmoscaphites bassleri Reeside, 1927, from the Western Interior of North America". Rocky Mountain Geology 42 (2): 67–94. doi:10.2113/gsrocky.42.2.67. ISSN 1555-7332. https://doi.org/10.2113/gsrocky.42.2.67. 
  5. ↑ Russell, D. A. (1964). "The Skull of American Mosasaurs". Columbia University. 

References

  • Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.



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