RTMP BB 91a, Irishman's Coulee (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as ETE Locality 1531, Bonebed 91a

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

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: . radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min; 5.6 m above BB 91

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: channel lag; sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: chan_bar ETE event: flood, ETE env comment: 0
• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: 0

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 1984-1989, 2006; reposited in the TMP

• ETE reference list: 478

Primary reference: J. M. Wood, R.G. Thomas, and J. Visser. 1988. Fluvial processes and vertebrate taphonomy: the Upper Cretaceous Judith River Formation, south-central Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 66:127-143 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22657: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 16.04.2001, edited by Jonathan Tennant, Matthew Carrano and Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
Nodosauridae indet. Marsh 1890 ankylosaur
ETE occurrence; species: Nodosauridae
 Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae
Ankylosauridae indet.1 Brown 1908 ankylosaurid
UALVP 47273 (tail club)
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Centrosaurus apertus2 Lambe 1905 ceratopsid
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
ETE occurrence; species: Hadrosauridae
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Velociraptor sp. Osborn 1924 maniraptoran
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
Tyrannosaurus rex Osborn 1905 tyrant lizard king
 Loricata -
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian
ETE occurrence; species: Crocodylia
 Testudinata -
Testudinata indet.3 Oppel 1811 turtle
ETE occurrence; species: Testudinidae
Amphibia
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Amphibia indet. Linnaeus 1758 tetrapod
ETE occurrence; species: Amphibia