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Product Description
SEE MORE DINOSAUR BONE FOSSILS
Collected from the famous Hell Creek Formation of Northwestern U.S.A., these ELEVEN piece collection of dinosaur vertebra, as well as dinosaur and other reptile limb and toe bones. These are from various types of dinosaurs and reptiles that once lived in the Cretaceous Period. The complete light tan toe phalanx bone is from a large Cretaceous turtle. The two limb bone fragments on the right go together but the middle portion where they were attached, is missing. This is a great collection showcasing a variety of different species.
HISTORY
The Hell Creek Formation is an intensively studied division of mostly Upper Cretaceous and some lower Paleocene rocks in North America, named for exposures studied along Hell Creek, near Jordan, Montana. The formation stretches over portions of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. The remains of many animals including dinosaurs were found in the Hell Creek Formation.
Vertebrates include dinosaurs, pterosaurs, crocodiles, champsosaurs, lizards, snakes, turtles, frogs and salamanders. Remains of fishes and mammals have also been found in the Hell Creek Formation. Notable dinosaur finds include Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops, ornithomimids as well, caenagnathids like Anzu, a variety of small theropods, pachycephalosaurs, ankylosaurs, crocodylomorphs and squamates, including various animal fossils unearthed in the Hell Creek Formation.
