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Judith River Formation

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The Judith River Formation is a fossil-bearing geologic formation in Montana, and is part of the Judith River Group. [1]

103 relations: Alberta, Albertaceratops, Alligatoridae, Amphibian, Aspidorhynchiformes, Aublysodon, Avaceratops, Basilemys, Bearpaw Formation, Belly River Group, Belonostomus, Bentonite, Bonefishes, Bowfin, Brachychampsa, Brachylophosaurini, Brachylophosaurus, Campanian, Canadian Rockies, Central Alberta, Ceratops, Chamops, Champsosaurus, Chondrichthyes, Choristodera, Claggett Shale, Coal, Coquina, Cretaceous, Crocodilia, Deinodon, Deinosuchus, Dermatemydidae, Diclonius, Dinosaur Park Formation, Dromaeosauridae, Dromaeosaurus, Dysganus, Edward Drinker Cope, European spadefoot toad, Fossil, Gar, Geological formation, Habrosaurus, Hadrosaurus, Hesperornis, Hesperornithes, Judiceratops, Judith River, Judith River Formation, ..., Judith River Group, Kirtland Formation, Kritosaurus, Lambeosaurus, Lea Park Formation, Leidyosuchus, Lepisosteus, Lisserpeton, Lists of dinosaur-bearing stratigraphic units, Lizard, Lungless salamander, Medusaceratops, Mercuriceratops, Milk River Formation, Missouri River, Monoclonius, Montana, Mudstone, Mummy, Myledaphus, Oldman Formation, Opisthotriton, Ornithischia, Ornithomimus, Osteichthyes, Pakowki Formation, Palaeoscincus, Palaeovaranus, Paleontology, Paralbula, Paronychodon, Probrachylophosaurus, Prodesmodon, Pteropelyx, Salamander, Sandstone, Saurornitholestes, Scapherpeton, Siltstone, Sirenidae, Spiclypeus, Stingray, Teiidae, Theropoda, Trachodon, Troodon, Turtle, Two Medicine Formation, Type (biology), Wapiti Formation, Xenosauridae, Zapsalis, Zuul. Expand index (53 more) »

Alberta

Alberta is a western province of Canada.

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Albertaceratops

Albertaceratops (meaning "Alberta horned face") was a genus of centrosaurine horned dinosaur from the middle Campanian-age Upper Cretaceous Oldman Formation of Alberta, Canada.

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Alligatoridae

The family Alligatoridae of crocodylians includes alligators and caimans.

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Amphibian

Amphibians are ectothermic, tetrapod vertebrates of the class Amphibia.

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Aspidorhynchiformes

Aspidorhynchiformes (meaning "shield snout form") is an extinct order of prehistoric ray-finned fish that was described by Bleeker in 1859.

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Aublysodon

Aublysodon (uncertain derivation; perhaps "backwards-flowing tooth"?) is a genus of carnivorous dinosaurs known only from the Judith River Formation in Montana, which has been dated to the late Campanian age of the late Cretaceous period (about 75 million years ago).

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Avaceratops

Avaceratops is a genus of small herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaurs which lived during the late Campanian during the Late Cretaceous Period in what are now the Northwest United States.

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Basilemys

Basilemys is an extinct genus of land turtle from the Cretaceous of North America and Asia.

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Bearpaw Formation

The Bearpaw Formation, also called the Bearpaw Shale, is a geologic formation of Late Cretaceous (Campanian) age.

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Belly River Group

The Belly River Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Late Cretaceous age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.

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Belonostomus

Belonostomus (meaning "big long mouth") or Diphyodus (meaning "double tooth") is a genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish that was described by Louis Agassiz in 1844.

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Bentonite

Bentonite (/ˈbɛntənʌɪt/) is an absorbent aluminium phyllosilicate clay consisting mostly of montmorillonite.

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Bonefishes

Albulidae is a family of fish, commonly known as the bonefishes, that are popular as game fish in Florida, select locations in the South Pacific and the Bahamas (where two bonefish are featured on the 10-cent coin) and elsewhere.

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Bowfin

Bowfin (Amia calva) are basal bony fishes related to gars in the infraclass Holostei.

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Brachychampsa

Brachychampsa is an extinct genus of alligatoroid.

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Brachylophosaurini

Brachylophosaurini is a tribe of saurolophine hadrosaurs with known material being from N. America and potentially Asia.

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Brachylophosaurus

Brachylophosaurus (or; meaning "short-crested lizard", Greek brachys.

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Campanian

The Campanian is, in the ICS' geologic timescale, the fifth of six ages of the Late Cretaceous epoch (or, in chronostratigraphy: the fifth of six stages in the Upper Cretaceous series).

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Canadian Rockies

The Canadian Rockies (Rocheuses canadiennes) comprise the Canadian segment of the North American Rocky Mountains.

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Central Alberta

Central Alberta is a region located in the Canadian province of Alberta.

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Ceratops

Ceratops (meaning "horn face") is a dubious genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur which lived during the Late Cretaceous.

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Chamops

Chamops is an extinct genus of polyglyphanodontian lizard from the Late Cretaceous of North America.

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Champsosaurus

Champsosaurus is an extinct genus of diapsid reptiles belonging to the order Choristodera, that existed in the Late Cretaceous and Paleogene periods.

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Chondrichthyes

Chondrichthyes (from Greek χονδρ- chondr- 'cartilage', ἰχθύς ichthys 'fish') is a class that contains the cartilaginous fishes: they are jawed vertebrates with paired fins, paired nares, scales, a heart with its chambers in series, and skeletons made of cartilage rather than bone.

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Choristodera

Choristodera is an extinct order of semiaquatic diapsid reptiles that ranged from the Middle Jurassic, or possibly Late Triassic, to at least the early Miocene.

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Claggett Shale

The Claggett Shale is a geological formation in Montana whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.

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Coquina

Coquina is a sedimentary rock that is composed either wholly or almost entirely of the transported, abraded, and mechanically-sorted fragments of the shells of molluscs, trilobites, brachiopods, or other invertebrates.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period mya.

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Crocodilia

Crocodilia (or Crocodylia) is an order of mostly large, predatory, semiaquatic archosaurian reptiles, known as crocodilians.

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Deinodon

Deinodon (Greek for "terrible tooth") is a tyrannosaurid dinosaur genus containing a single species, Deinodon horridus.

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Deinosuchus

Deinosuchus is an extinct genus related to the alligator that lived 80 to 73 million years ago (Ma), during the late Cretaceous period.

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Dermatemydidae

The Dermatemydidae are a family of turtles.

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Diclonius

Diclonius (meaning "double sprout") is a genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous.

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Dinosaur Park Formation

The Dinosaur Park Formation is the uppermost member of the Belly River Group (also known as the Judith River Group), a major geologic unit in southern Alberta.

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Dromaeosauridae

Dromaeosauridae is a family of feathered theropod dinosaurs.

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Dromaeosaurus

Dromaeosaurus ("swift running lizard") is a genus of theropod dinosaur which lived during the Late Cretaceous period (middle late Campanian), sometime between 76.5 and 74.8 million years ago, in the western United States and Alberta, Canada.

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Dysganus

Dysganus (dis-GANN-us) (meaning "rough enamel") is a dubious genus of ceratopsian dinosaur from the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous.

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Edward Drinker Cope

Edward Drinker Cope (July 28, 1840 – April 12, 1897) was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist, as well as a noted herpetologist and ichthyologist.

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European spadefoot toad

The European spadefoot toads are a family of frogs, the Pelobatidae, with only one extant genus Pelobates, containing four species.

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Gar

Gars (or garpike) are members of the Lepisosteiformes (or Semionotiformes), an ancient holosteian order of ray-finned fish; fossils from this order are known from the Late Jurassic onwards.

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Geological formation

A formation or geological formation is the fundamental unit of lithostratigraphy.

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Habrosaurus

For the duck-billed dinosaur, see Hadrosaurus Habrosaurus is an extinct genus of prehistoric salamanders, and the oldest known member of the family Sirenidae.

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Hadrosaurus

Hadrosaurus (from Greek ἁδρός, hadros, meaning "bulky" or "large", and σαῦρος, sauros, meaning "lizard") is a valid genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Cretaceous Period. Hadrosaurus foulkii, the only species in this genus, is known from a single specimen consisting of much of the skeleton and parts of the skull. The specimen was collected in 1858 from the Woodbury Formation in New Jersey, USA, representing the first dinosaur species known from more than isolated teeth to be identified in North America. Using radiometric dating of bivalve shells from the same formation, the sedimentary rocks where the Hadrosaurus fossil was found have been dated at some time between 80.5 and 78.5 million years ago.Gallagher, W.B. (2005). "" Netherlands Journal of Geosciences, 84(3): 241. In 1868 the only known specimen became the first ever mounted dinosaur skeleton and since 1991 the species H. foulkii has become the official state dinosaur of New Jersey.

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Hesperornis

Hesperornis (meaning "western bird") is a genus of flightless aquatic birds that spanned the first half of the Campanian age of the Late Cretaceous period (83.5–78 mya).

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Hesperornithes

Hesperornithes is an extinct and highly specialized group of aquatic avialans closely related to the ancestors of modern birds.

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Judiceratops

Judiceratops is an extinct genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsid dinosaur that lived approximately 78 million years ago during the latter part of the Cretaceous Period in what is now Montana, United States.

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Judith River

The Judith River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 124 mi (200 km) long, running through central Montana in the United States.

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Judith River Formation

The Judith River Formation is a fossil-bearing geologic formation in Montana, and is part of the Judith River Group.

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Judith River Group

The Judith River Group is a group of geologic formations in western North America dating from the late Cretaceous and noted as a site for the extensive excavation of dinosaur fossils.

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Kirtland Formation

The Kirtland Formation (originally the Kirtland Shale) is a sedimentary geological formation.

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Kritosaurus

Kritosaurus is an incompletely known genus of hadrosaurid (duck-billed) dinosaur.

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Lambeosaurus

Lambeosaurus (meaning "Lambe's lizard") is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur that lived about 75 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous period (Campanian) of North America.

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Lea Park Formation

The Lea Park Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Late Cretaceous age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, Canada.

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Leidyosuchus

Leidyosuchus (meaning "Leidy's crocodile") is an extinct genus of alligatoroid from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta.

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Lepisosteus

Lepisosteus is a genus of gars in the family Lepisosteidae.

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Lisserpeton

Lisserpeton is an extinct genus of prehistoric amphibian of the Hell Creek Formation.

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Lists of dinosaur-bearing stratigraphic units

This list of dinosaur-bearing rock formations is a list of geologic formations in which dinosaur fossils have been documented.

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Lizard

Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 6,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains.

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Lungless salamander

The Plethodontidae, or lungless salamanders, are a family of salamanders.

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Medusaceratops

Medusaceratops is an extinct genus of centrosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous Judith River Formation (middle Campanian stage) of Montana, northern United States.

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Mercuriceratops

Mercuriceratops is an extinct genus of herbivorous chasmosaurine ceratopsid dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian stage) of Alberta, Canada and Montana, United States.

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Milk River Formation

The Milk River Formation is a near- shore to terrestrial sedimentary unit deposited during the Late Cretaceous (late Santonian to early Campanian) in southern Alberta.

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Missouri River

The Missouri River is the longest river in North America.

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Monoclonius

Monoclonius (meaning "single sprout") is a dubious genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur found in the Late Cretaceous layers of the Judith River Formation in Montana, northern US, and the uppermost rock layers of the Dinosaur Park Formation in Alberta, Canada dated to between 75 and 74.6 million years ago.

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Montana

Montana is a state in the Northwestern United States.

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Mudstone

Mudstone, a type of mudrock, is a fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds.

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Mummy

A mummy is a deceased human or an animal whose skin and organs have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold, very low humidity, or lack of air, so that the recovered body does not decay further if kept in cool and dry conditions.

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Myledaphus

Myledaphus is a genus of Late Cretaceous cartilaginous fish whose fossils are known from Canada, the Midwest of the United States, and Uzbekistan.

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Oldman Formation

The Oldman Formation is a stratigraphic unit of Late Cretaceous (Campanian stage) age that underlies much of southern Alberta, Canada.

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Opisthotriton

Opisthotriton is an extinct genus of prehistoric salamanders that lived in North America between at least the Upper Cretaceous and the Paleocene.

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Ornithischia

Ornithischia is an extinct clade of mainly herbivorous dinosaurs characterized by a pelvic structure similar to that of birds.

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Ornithomimus

Ornithomimus ("bird mimic") is a genus of ornithomimid dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now North America.

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Osteichthyes

Osteichthyes, popularly referred to as the bony fish, is a diverse taxonomic group of fish that have skeletons primarily composed of bone tissue, as opposed to cartilage.

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Pakowki Formation

The Pakowki Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Campanian age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.

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Palaeoscincus

Palaeoscincus (meaning "ancient skink" from the Greek παλαιός and σκίγγος) is a dubious genus of ankylosaurian dinosaur based on teeth from the mid-late Campanian-age Upper Cretaceous Judith River Formation of Montana.

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Palaeovaranus

Palaeovaranus is an extinct genus of varanoid lizards from the Late Eocene of France and Germany.

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Paleontology

Paleontology or palaeontology is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene Epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).

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Paralbula

Paralbula is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish.

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Paronychodon

Paronychodon (meaning "beside claw tooth") was a theropod dinosaur genus.

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Probrachylophosaurus

Probrachylophosaurus bergei is a species of large herbivorous brachylophosaurin hadrosaurid dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous Campanian Judith River Formation, of Montana.

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Prodesmodon

Prodesmodon is an extinct genus of prehistoric salamander first described from the Lance Formation.

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Pteropelyx

Pteropelyx is a dubious genus of Late Cretaceous hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Judith River Formation of Montana, named by Edward Drinker Cope in 1889.

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Salamander

Salamanders are a group of amphibians typically characterized by a lizard-like appearance, with slender bodies, blunt snouts, short limbs projecting at right angles to the body, and the presence of a tail in both larvae and adults.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments.

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Saurornitholestes

Saurornitholestes ("lizard-bird thief") is a genus of carnivorous dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous of Alberta, Montana, New Mexico, Alabama, North Carolina, and South Carolina.

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Scapherpeton

Scapherpeton is an extinct genus of prehistoric amphibian.

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Siltstone

Siltstone is a sedimentary rock which has a grain size in the silt range, finer than sandstone and coarser than claystones.

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Sirenidae

Sirenidae, the sirens, are a family of aquatic salamanders.

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Spiclypeus

Spiclypeus (meaining "spike shield") is an extinct genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous Judith River Formation (late Campanian stage) of Montana, United States.

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Stingray

Stingrays are a group of sea rays, which are cartilaginous fish related to sharks.

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Teiidae

Teiidae is a family of autarchoglossan lizards native to the Americas.

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Theropoda

Theropoda (or, from Greek θηρίον "wild beast" and πούς, ποδός "foot") or theropods are a dinosaur suborder characterized by hollow bones and three-toed limbs.

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Trachodon

Trachodon (meaning "rough tooth") is a dubious genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur based on teeth from the Campanian-age Upper Cretaceous Judith River Formation of Montana, U.S.Leidy, J. (1856).

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Troodon

Troodon (Troödon in older sources) is a dubious genus of relatively small, bird-like dinosaurs known definitively from the Campanian age of the Cretaceous period (about 77 mya).

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Turtle

Turtles are diapsids of the order Testudines (or Chelonii) characterized by a special bony or cartilaginous shell developed from their ribs and acting as a shield.

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Two Medicine Formation

The Two Medicine Formation is a geologic formation, or rock body, that was deposited between 83.5 ± 0.7 Ma and 70.6 ± 3.4 Ma (million years ago), during Campanian (Late Cretaceous) time, and is located in northwestern Montana and southern Alberta.

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Type (biology)

In biology, a type is a particular specimen (or in some cases a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally attached.

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Wapiti Formation

The Wapiti Formation is a geological formation of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin in northwestern Alberta, and Northeastern British Columbia, Canada.

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Xenosauridae

Xenosauridae is a family of anguimorph lizards whose only living representative is the genus Xenosaurus, which is native to Central America.

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Zapsalis

Zapsalis is a genus of dromaeosaurine theropod dinosaurs.

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Zuul

Zuul is a genus of herbivorous ankylosaurine dinosaur from the Campanian Judith River Formation of Montana.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_River_Formation

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