RTMP Quarry 137 (II) (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Red Deer River, Sternberg

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.7° N, 111.5° W: paleocoordinates 58.1° N, 76.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Dinosaur Park Formation (Belly River Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• also described as the "pale beds" of the Belly River Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, brown, gray, argillaceous, carbonaceous sandstone

• "MSNM V345 was found embedded in a greyish-to- brownish sandstone matrix. The residual sediment encrusting the fossil was described as more or less cemented and containing clays, small carbonaceous lenses, and some rounded cobbles"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. B. Abbott in 1922

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Collection is housed in the Collection of Fossil Vertebrates of the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale of Milan. Orig. collected by the Field Museum, exchanged in 1958.

Primary reference: V. Vialli. 1960. Uno scheletro di dinosauro del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano (Kritosaurus notabilis (Lambe)). Osservazioni preliminari [A dinosaur skeleton in the Municipal Museum of Natural History in Milan (Kritosaurus notabilis (Lambe)). Preliminary observations]. Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 99:169-185 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55317: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 07.10.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae
? Ankylosauridae indet.2 Brown 1908 ankylosaurid
MSNM V5179
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Ceratopsidae indet.2 Marsh 1888 ceratopsid
MSNM V5175, V5176
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet.2, "Gryposaurus incurvimanus" = Gryposaurus notabilis1
Hadrosauridae indet.2 Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
MSNM V5177
"Gryposaurus incurvimanus" = Gryposaurus notabilis1 Lambe 1914 hadrosaurine
MSNM V345
 Theropoda - Ornithomimidae
Ornithomimidae indet.2 Marsh 1890 ornithomimid
MSNM V5178