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Bonebed

Bonebed

Extracted from the Wikipedia article Bone bed.

Bone beds are also recorded in North America, South America, Mongolia and China. Terrestrial bonebed examples are: the Triassic Metoposaurus bone bed from Portugal, the Mapusaurus bone bed at Cañadón del Gato, in Argentina, the Allosaurus-dominated Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry of Utah, the Dinosaur National Monument on the boundary of Utah and Colorado, an Albertosaurus bonebed from Alberta, a Daspletosaurus bone bed from Montana, the CenozoicJohn Day Fossil Beds of Oregon, a Triceratops bonebed from Montana, a Centrosaurus bonebed in Alberta, a Styracosaurus bone bed in Alberta, an Edmontosaurus annectens bone bed in Wyoming, an Edmontosaurus regalis bone bed in Alberta, a Gryposaurus bone bed in the Oldman Formation, a Pachyrhinosaurus bone bed in the Wapiti Formation, and the Nemegt Basin in the Gobi Desert region of Mongolia, specifically the Saurolophus bone bed known as the Dragon's Tomb. Bentiaba, Angola, is an example of a marine bonebed with numerous mosasaurs and plesiosaurs. Another example of a marine bonebed is the Sharktooth Hill Bonebed located in the Temblor Formation in California.