Recent* Publications on the Geology and Paleontology of the Hell Creek Formation of Montana and the Dakotas

Hell Creek sandstone, representing river channel deposition
© 1997-2005 by Phillip Bigelow


  • The Paleontologic and Geologic Record of North Dakota - Important Sites and Current Interpretations. The 1999 Proceedings of the North Dakota Academy of Science.

  • Archibald, J. D. 2000. Dinosaur abundance was not declining in a "3 m gap" at the top of the Hell Creek Formation, Montana and North Dakota. Comment. Geology 28(12): 1057-1184.

  • Carr, T. D. 1999. Craniofacial ontogeny in Tyrannosauridae (Dinosauria, Coelurosauria). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19(3): 497-520.

  • Hartman, J.H. and Kirkland, J.I. 2002. Brackish and marine mollusks of the Hell Creek Formation of North Dakota: Evidence for a persisting Cretaceous seaway, in Hartman, J.H., Johnson, K.R., and Nichols, D.J., (eds.) The Hell Creek Formation of the northern Great Plains: An integrated continental record of the end of the Cretaceous, Geological Society of America Special Paper 361, p. 271-296.

  • Johnson, K. R. 1999. The Reconstruction of Ancient Landscapes: An Example from the Late Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation of North Dakota, IN The Paleontologic and Geologic Record of North Dakota - Important Sites and Current Interpretations. The 1999 Proceedings of the North Dakota Academy of Science.

  • Johnson, K., D. Nichols, C. Labandeira, and D. Pearson. Devastation of terrestrial ecosystems at the K-T boundary in North America: The first calibrated record of plant and animal response to the Chicxulub impact, IN Catastrophic Events and Mass Extinctions: Impacts and Beyond. [Catastrophic Events Conference, Vienna, Austria, 2000]. Geological Society of America Special Paper. [In press].

  • Pearson, D. A., T. Schaefer, K. R. Johnson, and D. J. Nichols. 2001. Palynologically calibrated vertebrate record from North Dakota consistent with abrupt dinosaur extinction at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary. Geology 29, No. 1: 39-42.

  • Sheehan, P. M., D. E. Fastovsky, C. Barreto, and R. G. Hoffmann. 2000. Dinosaur abundance was not declining in a "3 m gap" at the top of the Hell Creek Formation, Montana and North Dakota. Geology 28(6):523-526.

  • Sheehan, P. M., D. E. Fastovsky, C. Barret, and R. G. Hoffmann. 2000. Dinosaur abundance was not declining in the "3 m gap" at the top of the Hell Creek Formation, Montana and North Dakota. Reply. Geology 28(12): 1057-1184.


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