Also known as Little Sandhill Creek, Steveville
Where: Alberta, Canada (50.9° N, 111.8° W: paleocoordinates 58.3° N, 76.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Oldman Formation (Belly River Group), Judithian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• upper part of formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by L. Lambe, B. Brown, Cutler; reposited in the AMNH, BMNH
Primary reference: L. M. Lambe. 1902. New genera and species from the Belly River Series (mid-Cretaceous). Geological Survey of Canada Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology 3(2):25-81 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 14485: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Steveville does not appear on modern maps, but Berry Creek joins the Red Deer River west of modern-day Wardlow
this locality apparently is just northwest of Dinosaur Provincial Park, and appears to have been included in a general "Dinosaur Park Formation" list for the park given by Eberth et al. 2001; the additional taxa listed by these authors are: Cimexomys judithae Cimolodon electus Cimolodon similis Cimolomys clarki additional Cimolomyidae indet. cf. Deltatheroides sp. Alphadon halleyi Turgidodon russelli Pediomys clemensi additional Pediomys sp. Paranyctoides sternbergi Cimolestes sp. additional Palaeoryctidae indet.
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"Cimolomys major n. sp." = Meniscoessus major2
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"Ptilodus primaevus n. sp." = Filikomys primaevus
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"Cimolestes cutleri n. sp." = Eodelphis cutleri3 Woodward 1916 metatherian BMNH M11532; probably includes type of "Boreodon matutinus," from this locality
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"? Delphodon praesagus n. sp." = Turgidodon praesagus2
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