Rumsey Ferry road (100 ft level) [ROM]: Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Canada
collected by Sternberg 1922
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Thescelosauridae
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Thescelosaurus warreni n. sp.
Parks 1926
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| recombined as Parksosaurus warreni | ||||||||||
| ROM 804 (= Ct. 5202; field no. 2) (6 measurements) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 50.9° North, 111.8° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 58.4° North, 83.8° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Edmonton | Formation: | Horseshoe Canyon | Member: | Tolman |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: sandstone level or above | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | concretionary,white lithified sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "a concretion of hard, white sandstone" | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,concretion |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | excellent |
| Articulated whole bodies: | all |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | ROM | ||
| Collectors: | Sternberg | Collection dates: | 1922 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Parksosaurus type | ||
| Database number: | 48624 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-03-24 13:47:47 | Last modified: | 2023-09-29 14:29:43 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-03-24 13:47:47 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 19270. | ETE | W. A. Parks. 1926. Thescelosaurus warreni, a new species of orthopodous dinosaur from the Edmonton Formation of Alberta. University of Toronto Studies, Geology Series 21:1-42 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 31494 | C. A. Boyd, C. M. Brown, R. D. Scheetz and J. A. Clarke. 2009. Taxonomic revision of the basal neornithischian taxa Thescelosaurus and Bugenasaura. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(3):758-770 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano] | |
| 51906 | D. A. Eberth, D. C. Evans, D. B. Brinkman, F. Therrien, and L. S. Russell. 2013. Dinosaur biostratigraphy of the Edmonton Group (Upper Cretaceous), Alberta, Canada: evidence for climate influence. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 50:701-726 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 12971 | ETE | P. M. Galton. 1995. The species of the basal hypsilophodontid dinosaur Thescelosaurus Gilmore (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) from the Late Cretaceous of North America. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 198(3):297-311 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 79160 | M. N. Hudgins. 2021. The Paleobiology, Paleoecology, and Evolution of Thescelosauridae (Ornithischia) from Alberta, Canada. xviii-343 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen] | |
| 62727 | L. S. Russell. 1966. Dinosaur hunting in western Canada. Royal Ontario Museum, Life Sciences Contribution 70:1-37 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 85876 | H.-D. Sues, D. C. Evans, P. M. Galton and C. M. Brown. 2022. Anatomy of the neornithischian dinosaur Parksosaurus warreni (Parks, 1926) from the Upper Cretaceous (lower Maastrichtian) Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta, Canada. Cretaceous Research 141:105369 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |