4 miles SW of Sand Creek [ROM] (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Red Deer River

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.7° N, 111.8° W: paleocoordinates 58.0° N, 75.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Oldman Formation (Belly River Group), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• 100 m below top of Belly River beds

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: soft parts

Collected by Levi Sternberg in 1930; reposited in the ROM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical

Primary reference: W. A. Parks. 1933. New species of dinosaurs and turtles from the Upper Cretaceous formations of Alberta. University of Toronto Studies, Geological Series 34:1-33 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 177143: authorized by David Nicholson, entered by David Nicholson on 21.03.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Nanhsiungchelyidae
Basilemys variolosa Cope 1876 turtle
ROM No. 5719 Ct.