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==Paleontology== The town of Harlowton is located in the Fort Union Geological formation and is famous for its [[Paleocene]] fossils.<ref name=":8">{{Cite web|url=https://www.mdt.mt.gov/travinfo/docs/roadsigns/PaleoscenceMammals.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130324023608/http://www.mdt.mt.gov/travinfo/docs/roadsigns/PaleoscenceMammals.pdf |archive-date=2013-03-24 |url-status=live|title=Paleocene Mammals and Albert Silberling|website=Montana Department of Transportation}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/15268/USNMP-63_2469_1923.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|title=PALEOCENE PRIMATES OF THE FORT UNION, WITH DISCUSSION OF RELATIONSHIPS OF EOCENE PRIMATES.|last=Gidley|first=James Williams|website=PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM}}</ref> In 1902 Albert Silberling, a local homesteader and self-taught [[paleontologist]], discovered the Douglass Quarry southwest of Harlowton.<ref name=":10">{{Cite web|url=https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/48517/ID369.pdf;sequence=2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202104820/https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/48517/ID369.pdf;sequence=2 |archive-date=2017-02-02 |url-status=live|title=MAMMALIAN FAUNA FROM DOUGLASS QUARRY, EARLIEST TIFFANIAN (LATE PALEOCENE) OF THE EASTERN CRAZY MOUNTAIN BASIN, MONTANA|last=KRAUSE, DAVID W.|first=and GINGERICH, PHILIP D.|date=December 31, 1983|website=CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE MUSEUM OF PALEONTOLOGY THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://peabody.yale.edu/collections/vertebrate-paleontology/history|title=History of Vertebrate Paleontology at Yale University|last=Othniel|first=Charles Marsh|date=2010-11-10|website=Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History}}</ref> Albert Silberling and Earl Douglass, a [[Princeton University]] paleontologist, discovered fossil remains of primitive mammals including the [[Ptilodus]], [[Phenacodus]], and [[Plesiadapis]] in the [[Quarry|quarries]] southwest of Harlowton.<ref name=":8" /> Albert Silberling's discoveries from fossils excavated in the Harlowton area have subsidized the information about life in the [[Paleozoic]] era.<ref name=":8" /><ref>{{Cite journal|title=Paleocene Caudata and Squamata from Gidley and Silberling Quarries, Montana|last=Sullivan|first=Robert M.|date=24 Aug 2010|journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |doi=10.1080/02724634.1991.10011399|volume=11|issue = 3|pages=293–301}}</ref> The ''[[Rugocaudia cooneyi]]'' and ''[[Tatankacephalus cooneyorum]]'' are two new dinosaur species that were found southwest of Harlowton. The [http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/r/rugocaudia.html ''Rugocaudia cooneyi''] is a new [[Sauropoda|sauropod]] dinosaur that was described and named by the paleontologist Cary Woodruff<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.greatplainsdinosaurs.org/index.php/about-the-museum/staff-and-board-of-directors|title=Staff and Board of Directors; Cary Woodruff - Director of Paleontology|website=Great Plains Dinosaur Museum and Field Station}}</ref> in 2012.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=A new titanosauriform from the Early Cretaceous Cloverly Formation of Montana|last=Woodruff|first=D. Cary|date=August 2012|doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2012.02.003|volume=36|pages=58–66|journal=Cretaceous Research}}</ref> The genus name ''Rugocaudia'' means “wrinkle tail” and the species name honors the landowner J. P. Cooney.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2012/04/titanosaur-tail-bones-turn-up-in-montana/1#.WId6mE0ixdg|title=Titanosaur tail (bones) turn up in Montana|last=Vergano|first=Dan|date=19 April 2012|website=USA TODAY}}</ref> The ''Tatankacephalus'' is a new [[ankylosaur]] dinosaur species found in 1997 by Bill and Kris Parsons, research associates of the [[Buffalo Museum of Science]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.science20.com/news_articles/tatankacephalus_cooneyorum_new_ankylosaur_dinosaur_species_discovery-61039|title=Tatankacephalus Cooneyorum - New Ankylosaur Dinosaur Species Discovery|date=30 October 2009|website=Science 2.0}}</ref> The ''[[Avaceratops lammersi]]'' dinosaur was found on the Lammers family Careless Creek Ranch northeast of Harlowton and is the first of its kind.<ref name=":9">{{Cite web|url=http://harlowtonmuseum.org/Exhibits/Ava.aspx|title=Meet Ava|website=Upper Musselshell Museum}}</ref> The ''Aveceratops'' is a small horned dinosaur that belongs to the [[Ceratopsidae|Ceratopsidaie]] family.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=The morphology and systematics of ''Avaceratops'', a primitive horned dinosaur from the Judith River Formation (Late Campanian) of Montana, with the description of a second skull|last=Dodson|first=Peter and Penkalski, Paul|date=24 Aug 2010 |doi=10.1080/02724634.1999.10011182|volume=19|issue = 4|pages=692–711|journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology}}</ref> Eddie and Ava Cole discovered the fossil remains in 1981.<ref name=":7" /> Dr. Peter Dodson, Professor of Paleontology and Veterinary Anatomy at the [[University of Pennsylvania]], participated in further excavation and transported the specimen to the [[Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia]].<ref name=":7" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ansp.org/visit/exhibits/dinosaur-hall/|title=Avaceratops- Dinosaur Hall- Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University|website=The Academy of Natural Sciences Drexel University}}</ref> A cast of the ''Avaceratops lammersi'' is on display at the Upper Musselshell Museum in Harlowton.<ref name=":9" />
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