Also known as ETE Locality 1534, Centrosaurus Bonebed 43, 0175/1, JR043, L0043
Where: Alberta, Canada (50.8° N, 111.5° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 60.9° N, 65.7° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Dinosaur Park Formation (Belly River Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: . radiometric intage_min
•low in formation, 10.5 m above contact w/Oldman Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: channel lag; fine-grained, intraclastic, brown, yellow sandstone and mudstone
•"paleochannel fill...associated with the lag deposit...mudstone drapes occur locally"
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by Brown, P. Currie, D. Russell in 1977–1993; reposited in the TMP
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,
• ETE reference list: 478, ; ETE museum list: area = "half the size of a football field"; at least 1500 sq m, 1.5 m thick bed, 60 elements/m2
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 22659: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 17.04.2001, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
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Centrosaurus apertus Lambe 1905 ceratopsid ETE minimum number of individuals, incl. pathologic TMP1989.018.0108
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Bivalvia | |
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Schizosporis parvus | |
Schizosporis parvus2 Cookson and Dettmann 1959 | |
Acanthotriletes | |
Acanthotriletes sp.2 Potonié and Kremp 1954 | |
Ginkgoopsida | |
Vitreisporites pallidus2 Nilsson 1958 | |
Cycadopites | |
Cycadopites nitidus2 de Jersey 1964 | |
Alisporites | |
Alisporites bilateralis2 Rouse 1959 | |
Cedripites | |
Cedripites cretaceus2 Pocock 1962 | |
Penetetrapites mollis | |
Penetetrapites mollis2 Hedlund and Norris 1968 | |
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Angiospermae | |
Trudopollis meekeri2 Newman 1965 | |
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Pteridopsida | |
Cyathidites minor2 Couper 1953
Cyathidites australis2 Couper 1953 | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Laevigatosporites ovatus2 Wilson and Webster 1946 | |
Gleicheniidites senonicus2 Ross 1949 |