Also known as Laosaurus minimus type site
Where: Alberta, Canada (49.6° N, 114.2° W: paleocoordinates 57.5° N, 79.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Allison Formation (Belly River Group), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• lower part of Allison Formation, originally thought to be from Blairmore Formation (Lower Cretaceous)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C. H. Crickmay in 1923; reposited in the NMC
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• collected from rock cut in 1923 by C. H. Crickmay, part of GSC party under M. Y. Williams
Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1924. A new species of Laosaurus, an ornithischian dinosaur from the Cretaceus of Alberta. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, section 4, series 3 18:1-6 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 47194: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.02.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Laosaurus minimus n. sp.
Laosaurus minimus n. sp. Gilmore 1924 ornithopod |