Korite International mine 1A (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (49.6° N, 112.8° W: paleocoordinates 57.3° N, 78.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bearpaw Shale Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• from below the Baculites compressus zone, ca. 8 m above the Lethbridge Coal Zone of the Dinosaur Park Fm., within uppermost magnetochron 33n.3n

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, soft parts

Collected in 2016; reposited in the TMP

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying,

Primary reference: E. T. Drysdale, F. Therrien, D. K. Zelenitsky, D. B. Weishampel, and D. C. Evans. 2019. Description of juvenile specimens of Prosaurolophus maximus (Hadrosauridae: Saurolophinae) from the Upper Cretaceous Bearpaw Formation of southern Alberta, Canada, reveals ontogenetic changes in crest morphology. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38(6):e1547310:1-20 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 204697: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.09.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Prosaurolophus maximus Brown 1916 hadrosaurine
TMP 2016.37.1