Ornithomimus Quarry, DMNH loc. 894 (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.8° N, 111.5° W: paleocoordinates 58.1° N, 76.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fine channel fill; mudstone

• fine grained oxbow pond, covered with sand during an overbank flood

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts

Collected by Kieran, Johnson, Rothwell in 1994–1995, 1998

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: R. A. Stockey, G. W. Rothwell, and K. R. Johnson. 2007. Cobbania corrugata gen. et comb. nov. (Araceae): a floating aquatic monocot from the Upper Cretaceous of western North America. American Journal of Botany 94(4):609-624 [S. Wing/N. Jud]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 116229: authorized by Scott Wing, entered by Nathan Jud on 06.09.2011

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Ornithomimidae
Ornithomimus sp. Marsh 1890 ornithomimid
TMP 1995.110.0001
Angiospermae
 Mesangiosperms - Araceae
Cobbania corrugata Stockey et al. 2007
many more specimens destroyed or not collected