RTMP BB 50 (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.6° N, 111.5° W: paleocoordinates 57.9° N, 76.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dinosaur Park Formation (Belly River Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coarse channel fill; sandstone

• "a low-sinuosity channel that was flowing toward the east"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by L. Strong in 1985; reposited in the TMP

Primary reference: D. B. Brinkman and E. L. Nicholls. 1993. The skull of Neurankylus eximius (Testudines: Baenidae) and a reinterpretation of the relationships of this taxon. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 13(3):273-281 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 187581: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 02.08.2017, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Osteichthyes -
Osteichthyes indet. Huxley 1880 bony fish
Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Ankylosauria indet. Osborn 1923 ankylosaur
Ceratopsia indet. Marsh 1890 ceratopsian
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
 Crocodylia -
Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842 crocodilian
 Choristodera - Champsosauridae
Champsosauridae indet. Cope 1876 champsosaur
 Testudinata - Baenidae
Neurankylus eximius Lambe 1902 turtle
TMP 89.36.112, ventral surface of a braincase
Mammalia
 Mammalia -
Amphibia
 Amphibia -