Scapherpeton tectum Cope, 1876

Remarks

• Collection:   Lee Garrison
• Formation:  Montana Group, Hell Creek Formation
• Location:     Montana
• Data compiled by Lee Garrison

General Info

Synonyms

• 1876 Scapherpeton tectum Cope

• 1876 Scapherpeton laticolle Cope

• 1876 Scapherpeton excisum Cope

• 1876 Scapherpeton favosum Cope

• 1959 Scapherpeton tectum Cope; Auffenberg + Goin

• 1972 Scapherpeton tectum Cope; Sahni

Stratigraphic Occurrence

• Montana Group, Hell Creek Formation of Montana

• Montana Group, Lance Formation of Wyoming

• Judith River Group, Judith River Formation of Montana

• Belly River Group, Oldman Formation of Alberta, Canada

Age

• Scapherpeton tectum Cope is a middle Campanian to Latest Maastrichtian salamander (~69-66.5 mya).

Geographic Occurrence (not an all-inclusive list)

• Carter County, Montana

• Fergus County, Montana

• Niobrara County, Wyoming

• Alberta, Canada

Remarks

   For more information and drawings, see:

• Cope, E. D.  1876.  On some extinct reptiles and Batrachia from the Judith River and Fox Hills beds of Montana.  Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences 28, 34-359.

• Auffenberg, A. and Goin, C. J.  1959.  The Status of the Salamander Genera Scapherpeton and Hemitrypus of Cope.  American Museum Novitates 1979, 1-12.

• Sahni, Ashok.  1972.  The vertebrate fauna of the Judith River Formation.  American Museum of Natural History Bulletin 147 (6), 323-412.