Saurornitholestes langstoni Sues, 1978

Remarks

• Collection:       Lee Garrison

• Formation:      Montana Group, Hell Creek Formation; Judith River Group, Two Medicine and Judith River Formations

• Location:         Montana

• Top Image:     1 = Two Medicine Formation, 2 = Judith River Formation, 3 = Hell Creek Formation.  Bottom Image:  Judith River Grp, Judith River Formation

• Data compiled by Lee Garrison

General Info

Synonyms (a few reports from the literature)

• 1978 Saurornitholestes langstoni Sues

• 1994 Saurornitholestes langstoni Sues; Fiorillo & Currie

• 2000 Saurornitholestes langstoni Sues; Fiorillo & Gangloff

• 2001 Saurornitholestes langstoni Sues; Sankey

• 2002 Saurornitholestes langstoni Sues; Sankey, Brinkman, Guenther, & Currie

Stratigraphic Occurrence

• Judith River Group, Judith River Formation of Montana

• Judith River Group, Two Medicine Formation of Montana and Alberta

• Montana Group, Hell Creek Formation of Montana and South Dakota

• Tornillo Group, Aguja Formation, Upper Shale Member of West Texas

• Prince Creek Formation, Kogosukruk Member of Alaska

Age

• Saurornitholestes langstoni Sues ranges from the late Middle Campanian to Latest Maastrichtian Stage (~76–65 mya).

Geographic Occurrence (not an all-inclusive list)

• Alberta, Canada

• Brewster County, TX

• Butte County, SD

• Carter County, MT

• Harding County, SD

• Hill County, MT

• North Slope County, AK

Remarks      

For photographs and more information see:

• Sues, H.-D.  1978.  A new small theropod dinosaur from the Judith River Formation (Campanian) of Alberta Canada.  Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 62, 381–400.

• Fiorillo, A. R.; Currie, P. J.  1994.  Theropod teeth from the Judith River Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of south-central Montana.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14, 74–80.

• Fiorillo, A. R.; Gangloff, R. A.  2000.  Theropod teeth from the Prince Creek Formation (Cretaceous) of Northern Alaska, with speculations on Arctic dinosaur paleoecology.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20 (4), 675–682.

• Sankey, J. T. 2001.  Late Campanian southern dinosaurs, Aguja Formation, Big Bend, Texas.  Journal of Paleontology 75 (1), 208–215.

• Sankey, J. T.; Brinkman, D. B.; Guenther, M.; Currie, P. J.  2002.  Small theropod teeth from the Late Cretaceous (Late Campanian) Judith River Group, Alberta.  Journal of Paleontology 76 (4), 751–763.