John Neills Ranch (75 ft level) [ROM] (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (51.6° N, 112.8° W: paleocoordinates 59.1° N, 77.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Drumheller Member (Horseshoe Canyon Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• "member A" according to Lindblad's field notes

•For revised age stratigraphy of the Horseshoe Canyon Formation, see Eberth and Braman 2012 and Eberth et al. 2020

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained, intraclastic, brown, gray sandstone

• "a light olive gray, in places yellowish-brown, fine-grained sandstone, which contains abundant claystone galls and pieces of coalifed wood and other plant debris."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G. Lindblad in 1923; reposited in the ROM

Collection methods: mechanical,

Primary reference: D. A. Russell. 1972. Ostrich dinosaurs from the late Cretaceous of western Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 9:375-402 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138968: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.02.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda - Caenagnathidae
Epichirostenotes curriei n. gen. n. sp.2
Epichirostenotes curriei n. gen. n. sp.2 Sullivan et al. 2011 maniraptoran
ROM field no. 1923-1 (= ROM 43250)
unclassified
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Plantae indet.1
Plantae indet.1 Haeckel 1866
1Sues 1997; 2Sullivan et al. 2011