MONTANA

WHEATLAND AND GOLDEN VALLEY COUNTIES

OX HILL QUARRY, CARELESS CREEK QUARRY, HIDDEN VALLEY QUARRY AND BLACKBIRD RIDGE QUARRY

JUDITH RIVER FORMATION

JUDITHAN AGE

MIDDLE CAMPANIAN STAGE

MIDDLE SENONIAN SUBEPOCH

UPPER GULF EPOCH

LATE CRETACEOUS

STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930

SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866

CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768

SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1904

SUPERLEGION: NEODIAPSIDA BENTON, 1985

LEGION: ARCHOSAUROMORPHA HUENE, 1946

SUBLEGION: DINOSAUROMORPHA BENTON & NORMAN IN BENTON, 1985

INFRALEGION: DINOSAURIFORMES NOVAS, 1992

SUPERCOHORT: DINOSAURIA OWEN, 1842

COHORT: THEROPODA EMEND MARSH, 1881

ORDER: Incertae sedis

Ricardoestesia sp

Gen. sp indet.

AVEPODA PAUL, 2002

SUPERORDER: NEOTHEROPODA BAKKER, 1986

GRANDORDER: TETANURAE GAUTHIER, 1986

MICRORDER: COELUROSAURIA HUENE, 1914

ORDER: MANIRAPTORFORMES HOLTZ, 1996

AVETHEROPODA PAUL, 2001

AVEPECTORA PAUL, 2001

SUBORDER: MANIRAPTORA GAUTHIER, 1986

INFRAORDER: PARVES SERENO, 1997

PARVORDER: DEINONYCHOSAURIA COLBERT & D. A. RUSSELL, 1969

Family: DROMAEOSAURIDAE Russell, 1969

Subfamily: DROMAEOSAURINAE Matthew & Brown, 1922

Dromaeosaurus albertensis

Subfamily: VELOCIRAPTORINAE Barsbold, 1978

Saurornitholestes langstoni


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