High precision CA-ID-TIMS U-Pb zircon age for the “Dueling Dinosaurs” locality, with implications for regional correlation, basal age and duration of the Hell Creek Formation, Montana

• Eric M. Roberts ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: eric.roberts@mines.edu

  Affiliation Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8583-7437

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• Marc S. Hendrix,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Geosciences, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, United States of America

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• Jahandar Ramezani,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• William C. Clyde,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, United States of America

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• Pierre Zippi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Biostratigraphy.com, LLC, Garland, Texas, United States of America, Department of Earth Sciences, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

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• Stuart Hodgson,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

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• Valerie Yuleridge,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

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• Lindsay E. Zanno

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Geology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Paleontology, Natural History Museum of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Vertebrate Paleontology, Sam Noble Museum, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America, Department of Earth Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1 Matieland, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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