13.5 miles southeast of Manyberries (NMC) (Cretaceous to of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (49.2° N, 110.6° W: paleocoordinates 56.4° N, 76.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Dinosaur Park Formation (Belly River Group), Middle Campanian to Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• "below the middle of the section exposed at this spot.”

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone and massive sandstone

• "In clay bed midway between two massive sandstone beds"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by H. Lowe in 1937; reposited in the NMC

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: W. P. Coombs. 1978. The families of the ornithischian dinosaur order Ankylosauria. Palaeontology 21(1):143-170 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155027: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.03.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae
Platypelta coombsi Penkalski 2018 ankylosaurid
NMC 8876, skull