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South of Hardin

US / MT
45.61333, -107.57972View on MapOpen in Google Maps
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South of Hardin is a fossil collection site in Big Horn, Montana, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. Fossils here come from the Telegraph Creek Formation, dated to the Campanian (83.6–72.2 million years ago). The depositional environment is recorded as marine indet. Documented finds include Tylosaurus proriger.

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Fossil

Geologic setting

Formation
Telegraph Creek
Geologic interval
Campanian
Age
83.6–72.2 Ma
Depositional environment
marine indet.
Recorded occurrences
1
Locality notes

"from NE 1/4, SE 1/4 sec. 36, T2S, R33E, Bighorn county, Montana"

Fossils found here

Tylosaurus proriger
Reptilia · Mosasauridae

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 107709 (CC BY 4.0)view the source record

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Coordinates: 45.61333, -107.57972

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