Morgan Creek (Rocky Creek) (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Baena longicauda type, Grasslands National Park

Where: Saskatchewan, Canada (49.1° N, 106.6° W: paleocoordinates 55.7° N, 78.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Frenchman Formation, Lancian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Ravenscrag formation, 50 feet below coal seam; Lance equivalent - this is now assigned to the Frenchman Fm.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

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

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: R. S. Lull. 1933. A revision of the Ceratopsia or horned dinosaurs. Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 3(3):1-175 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 128461: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 09.06.2012, edited by Matthew Carrano and Evangelos Vlachos

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata - Baenidae
"Baena longicauda n. sp." = Thescelus insiliens1, "Baena hatcheri" = Eubaena hatcheri2
"Baena longicauda n. sp." = Thescelus insiliens1 Hay 1908 turtle
NMC 8678 (type of Baena longicauda Russell, 1934, pp. 101-104, pls. 1-3), a partial shell with limb material and caudal vertebrae
"Baena hatcheri" = Eubaena hatcheri2 Hay 1901 turtle
GSC 8680, GSC 8679, GSC 8677, GSC 8678, 4 partial shells
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Triceratops prorsus3 Marsh 1890 ceratopsid
GSC (NMC) 8598