East of Huxley (NMC 9554) (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (51.9° N, 113.2° W: paleocoordinates 59.7° N, 84.8° 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 formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, ferruginous, red sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. Sternberg, W. Langston in 1946, 1960, 1981; reposited in the NMC, TMP

• single phalanx collected by Langston in 1960 from an eroded and shattered skeleton weathering out of a cliff, first observed by Sternberg in 1946. The same specimen was later collected (1981) by the RTMP.

Primary reference: D. A. Russell. 1970. Tyrannosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of western Canada. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Publications in Paleontology 1:1-34 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 11918: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.09.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
cf. Tyrannosaurus rex Osborn 1905 tyrant lizard king
NMC 9950, cervical