east bank Red Deer River, GSC (NMC 5601) (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (51.8° N, 113.0° W: paleocoordinates 59.5° N, 84.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Scollard Formation (Edmonton Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• upper part of Edmonton Formation ("Edmonton B")

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by T. C. Weston in 1888–1889; reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: L. M. Lambe. 1899. On reptilian remains from the Cretaceous of north-western Canada. The Ottawa Naturalist 13:68-70 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 11898: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.09.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
Albertosaurus sarcophagus Osborn 1905 Alberta lizard
NMC 5601, skull w/associated postcrania