south of Shaunavon, CMN Loc. P5710 (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Frenchman River valley, RSM Loc. 72F08-0074

Where: Saskatchewan, Canada (49.3° N, 108.3° W: paleocoordinates 56.3° N, 80.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Frenchman Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• middle to upper levels of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; yellow sandstone and bentonitic, gray claystone

• "a yellow-buff punky sandstone which overlies grey to buff bentonitic claystones"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. Langston in 1957; reposited in the NMC

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: J. C. Mallon, D. C. Evans, T. T. Tokaryk and M. L. Currie. 2015. First pachycephalosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Frenchman Formation (upper Maastrichtian) of Saskatchewan, Canada. Cretaceous Research 56:426-431 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 170675: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.06.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Pachycephalosauridae
Sphaerotholus cf. buchholtzae
Sphaerotholus cf. buchholtzae Williamson and Carr 2003 ornithischian
CMN 56510