Milk River Natural Area (NMC 8804) (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (49.1° N, 110.7° W: paleocoordinates 56.3° N, 76.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Oldman Formation (Belly River Group), Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• upper unit of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H. Lowe & C. Sternberg in 1937

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: M. J. Ryan, R. Holmes, J. Mallon, M. Loewen, and D. C. Evans. 2017. A basal ceratopsid (Centrosaurinae: Nasutoceratopsini) from the Oldman Formation (Campanian) of Alberta, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 54:1-14 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 206061: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 29.10.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Nasutoceratopsini indet. Ryan et al. 2017 ceratopsid
CMN 8804 (Sternberg ID: Brachyceratops)