RTMP BB 42, Styracosaurus bonebed (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as ETE Locality 1529, Bonebed 42, 0172/1

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.7° N, 111.5° W: paleocoordinates 58.0° N, 76.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• stratigraphic position estimated from Fig. 4 in ref 26153

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: channel lag; fine-grained, intraclastic, gray, argillaceous sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: chan_bar ETE event: flood, ETE env comment: 0; "a lateral-accretion deposit on a point-bar in a meandering stream"
• "bones and associated intraformational mudstone clasts in a fine sandstone matrix that formed a thin centimeter-scale bed within a meter-scale set of IHS."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D. Taylor, D. Russell in 1966-1998; reposited in the TMP

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• ETE reference list: 478

Primary reference: P. J. Currie. 1980. Mesozoic vertebrate life in Alberta and British Columbia. Mesozoic Vertebrate Life 1:27-40 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22655: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 16.04.2001, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Styracosaurus albertensis1 Lambe 1913 ceratopsid
about 40% of specimens
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet.3 Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
Sigmopollis
  -
Polypodiopsida
  - Polypodiaceae
Laevigatosporites ovatus2 Wilson and Webster 1946
 Schizaeales - Polypodiidae
  - Blechnaceae
  - Gleicheniaceae
Pteridopsida
  -
Equisetopsida
 Anthocerotidae - Anthocerotidae
Retitricolpites
  -
 Anthophyta -
Penetetrapites mollis
  -
Penetetrapites mollis2 Hedlund and Norris 1968
Cedripites
  -
Cedripites cretaceus2 Pocock 1962
Alisporites
  -
Cycadopites
  -
Cycadopites nitidus2 de Jersey 1964
Ginkgoopsida
 Caytoniales -
 Ephedrales -
Angiospermae
 Mesangiosperms - Liliaceae
 Gunnerales -
 Proteales - Proteaceae
 Proteales -
Magnoliopsida
  -
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Parvisaccites radiatus2 Couper 1958 podocarp
Podocarpidites sp.2 Cookson 1947 podocarp
 Coniferales -
Hepaticae
  -
Taurocusporites segmentatus
  -
Marchantiopsida
 Sphaerocarpales -
Bryopsida
  -
Lycopodiopsida
 Lycopodiales -
Retitriletes sp.2 Pierce 1961 clubmoss
 Selaginellales - Selaginellaceae
Trudopollis
  -
Trudopollis meekeri2 Newman 1965