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RE: Montanazdarcho, Geology, and snake refs



 

 

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From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of Morgan Churchill
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 2:50 PM
To: Dinosaur Mailing list
Subject: Montanazdarcho, Geology, and snake refs

 

Well, instead of having to type out 3 different question messages, I am going to try to condense them into one message:

Montanazdarcho:  Does anyone know the species name?  the Dinosauricon doesn't list it, and the Pterosaur webpage seems to be MIA.  Also, is this the pterosaur known from two medicine formation? 

 

Azhdarchid?

 

VARRICCHIO, 1995

 

Numbers: Not given.

 

Locality: Jack’s Birthday Site, located along Badger Creek, in Glacier County, Montana within the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.

 

Horizon: Two Medicine Formation, Campanian, Late Cretaceous.

 

Material:

 

Genus: Montanazhdarcho PADIAN, RICQLES & HORNER, 1994

Etymology: Uzbek, a mythical dragon called Montana, + Azhdarcho.

 

Species: minor PADIAN, RICQLES & HORNER, 1994

Etymology:

 

Holotype: MOR 691

 

Locality:  Montana.

 

Horizon: Two Medicine Formation, Campanian, Late Cretaceous.

 

Material: Partial snout, crushed cervical vertebra, right scapulocoracoid and a left wing including part of the scapulocoracoid, humerus, ulna and most of the radius, the proximal and partial distal carpals, the wing metacarpal and most of the wing finger.

 

Referred material:

PADIAN, 1984

 

YPM PU 22446

 

Locality: Near “Egg Mountain”, near Chateau, Montana.

 

Horizon: Two Medicine Formation, Campanian, Late Cretaceous.

 

Material: Deltopectoral crest of a left humerus, distal end of left humerus, left distal carpal.

 

 

Tracy L. Ford

P. O. Box 1171

Poway Ca  92074