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Found Here
Geologic setting
- Formation
- Two Medicine
- Geologic interval
- Middle Campanian
- Age
- 83.6–72.2 Ma
- Depositional environment
- "floodplain"
- Recorded occurrences
- 6
ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: floodplain\r\n"the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Two Medicine Formation consists primarily of anastomosed and ephemeral fluvial channel sandstone and related floodplain mudrock interbedded with lacustrine micrite-dominated intervals". (Schmitt et al., 2014)\r\n"Two Medicine records deposition in a variety of fluvial distributary channel systems and their accompanying floodplain environments" (Schmitt et al., 2014)
Fossils found here
Records and references
Data: Paleobiology Database collection 22653 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record
Difficulty
Getting there
Location on Map
Coordinates: 48.63330, -113.75000
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