RTMP Quarry 72, Steveville, (NMC) (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Daspletosaurus type, Sternberg Quarry 88, G.S.C.23

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.8° N, 111.5° W: paleocoordinates 58.1° N, 76.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Oldman Formation (Belly River Group), Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fine channel fill; argillaceous, silty sandstone

• "sandstone, claystone, siltstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. M. Sternberg in 1921; reposited in the NMC

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: C. M. Sternberg. 1950. Notes and annotated list of quarries. Map 969A. Steveville, west of fourth meridian, Alberta. Canada Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 11915: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.09.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
Daspletosaurus torosus n. gen. n. sp.
Daspletosaurus torosus n. gen. n. sp. Russell 1970 tyrannosaurine