Montana - Wyoming - US

The Lower Cretaceous Cloverly Formation (Aptian-Albian) is exposed in the Bighorn Basin of south-central Montana and northern Wyoming. It has an average thickness of approximately 90 m and consits of predominatly veriegated claystones with channel-filling sandstones and conglomeratic sandstones. The top of the Cloverly is marked by a transgressive marine facies, deposited by a southward-encroaching inland sea.

Deinonychus antirrhopus - Montana Wyoming - Coelurosauria Dromaeosauridae - Cretaceous Late Aptian Albian

Megadontosaurus - Nomen Nudem

Microvenator celer - Montana Wyoming - Tetanurae Coelurosauria - Cretaceous Early Aptian Albian

Peltosaurus [preoccupied] Montana Wyoming - - Ankylosauria Nodosauridae - Cretaceous Early Cretaceous Late Aptian Albian Cenomanian


Rugocaudia cooneyi - Montana - Sauropoda Titanosauria - Cretaceous Early Aptian Albian


Sauropelta edwardsorum - Montana Wyoming - Ankylosauria Nodosauridae - Cretaceous Early Cretaceous Late Aptian Albian Cenomanian

Tatankacephalus cooneyrum - Montana - Ankylosauria Ankylosauridae - Cretaceous Late Aptian Albian

Tenontosaurus tilletorum - Montana Wyoming - Iguanodontia Iguanodontidae - Cretaceous Early Aptian

Zephyrosaurus schaffi - Montana - Ornithopoda Hypsilophodontidae - Cretaceous Early Aptian

Brachiosaurid indet. (= ? Pleurocoelus sp.) - Montana Wyoming - Sauropoda Brachiosauridae - Cretaceous Early Aptian Albian

Ornithomimid indet. (= ?Ornithomimus velox) - Montana Wyoming - Theropoda Ornithomimidae - Cretaceous Early Aptian Albian

Theropoda indet. - Montana Wyoming - Theropoda - Cretaceous Early Aptian Albian

Sauropoda indet. - Wyoming - Sauropoda - Cretaceous Early Aptian Albian