Fox Hills
Description
Source: Wikipédia
La Formation de Fox Hills est une formation géologique datant du Crétacé supérieur et située dans le nord-ouest des Grandes Plaines en Amérique du Nord. On la trouve de l'Alberta au nord jusqu'au Colorado, au sud.
Des restes de fossiles de dinosaures ont été retrouvés dans la formation, même si aucun genre ne lui est particulier.
Découvertes
Source: The Paleobiology Database
Site(s) correspondant(s) à cette formation: 6
Iron Lightning Member type locality (YPM Loc. 74) : South Dakota - Ziebach 3520 83927 Sec. 33, T14N; R19E, Ziebach County; "type section of the Iron Lightning Member where it was measured in the SW corner of a drainage divide in the badlands located to the east of the gravel road running northward from Highway 212 to the village of Iron Lightning near the Moreau River."- Corral Road [sandstone] (DMNH loc. 19383) : South Dakota - Meade 83927 83928 sec. 35, T7N, R14E, ca. 13 km SE of Enning; map shows site as just E of Corral Road, ca. 3.5 km SSE of White Owl
- Corral Road [pebbly lag] (DMNH loc. 19383) : South Dakota - Meade 83927 83928 sec. 35, T7N, R14E, ca. 13 km SE of Enning; map shows site as just E of Corral Road, ca. 3.5 km SSE of White Owl
- Bull Creek Valley : South Dakota - Meade 84122 in Bull Creek Valley, sec. 7, T7N, R13E
- UND loc. RF132-79-1 : North Dakota - Emmons 85695 location estimated as approx. sec. 2, T132N, R79W
- NDSFC Loc. LO64 : North Dakota - Logan 85695 location estimated as approx. sec. 4, T134N, R71W
Publication(s)
La base comprend 5 publication(s).
Source: The Paleobiology Database
- ↑1 2 K. M. Waage. 1968. Peabody Museum of Natural History Bulletin 27 (https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.147268)
- ↑1 2 3 J. A. Chamberlain, K. Knoll, and J. J. W. Sertich. 2023. Non-avian theropod phalanges from the marine Fox Hills Formation (Maastrichtian), western South Dakota, USA. PeerJ 11:e14665:1-32 (https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14665)
- ↑1 2 3 4 M. A. Becker, J. A. Chamberlain, and D. O. Terry. 2004. Chondrichthyans from the Fairpoint Member of the Fox Hills Formation (Maastrichtian), Meade County, South Dakota. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(4):780-793 (https://doi.org/10.1671/0272-4634(2004)024[0780:CFTFMO]2.0.CO;2)
- ↑1 2 W. A. Pettyjohn. 1967. New members of Upper Cretaceous Fox Hills Formation in South Dakota, representing delta deposits. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 51(7):1361-1367
- ↑1 2 3 4 J. W. Hoganson, J. M. Erickson, and F. D. Holland. 2007. Amphibian, reptilian, and avian remains from the Fox Hills Formation (Maastrichtian): shoreline and estuarine deposits of the Pierre Sea in south-central North Dakota. The Geology and Paleontology of the Late Cretaceous Marine Deposits of the Dakotas. Geological Society of America Special Paper 427:239-256 (https://doi.org/10.1130/2007.2427(18))
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