T. rex Coulee, Crowsnest Pass (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Rener's Farms

Where: Alberta, Canada (49.6° N, 114.1° W: paleocoordinates 57.8° N, 86.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Willow Creek Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• caliche/lower member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray sandstone

• "a layer of light grey sandstone with variable hardness, approximately 0.75 m thick"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Baker, P. J. Currie in 1980–1982; reposited in the TMP

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

• originally discovered by high school students

Primary reference: R. E. Molnar. 1991. The cranial morphology of Tyrannosaurus rex. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 217(4-6):137-176 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157188: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.06.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
"Tyrannosaurus regina" = Tyrannosaurus rex2
"Tyrannosaurus regina" = Tyrannosaurus rex2 Osborn 1905 tyrant lizard king
RTMP 81.6.1 ("Black Beauty"), 81.6.4–11
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet.1 Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
RTMP 81.6.3
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.1 Cuvier 1795 snail
RTMP 81.6.2