Charlie Young site (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (55.0° N, 119.6° W: paleocoordinates 63.7° N, 90.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wapiti Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• 170 m higher than Pipestone Creek bonebed, estd. age 70.4 Ma

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. Young, P. Currie in 1989–; reposited in the TMP

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: M. J. Ryan and A. P. Russell. 2001. Dinosaurs of Alberta (exclusive of Aves). In D. H. Tanke & K. Carpenter (ed.), Mesozoic Vertebrate Life 279-298 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 161248: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 03.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
Tyrannosauridae indet. Osborn 1906 tyrannosaurid
TMP 1989.062.0004, vertebra
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Pachyrhinosaurus sp. Sternberg 1950 ceratopsid
incl. skulls