Where: Alberta, Canada (50.8° N, 111.3° W: paleocoordinates 58.1° N, 75.8° 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)
• originally described as from the Oldman Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, yellow claystone and white, blue, silty, carbonaceous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: coalified
Collected by I. Vanderloh, D. A. Russell, P. Currie in 1968, 1979; reposited in the NMC
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
• additional collecting in 1979
Primary reference: D. A. Russell. 1969. A new specimen of Stenonychosaurus from the Oldman Formation (Cretaceous) of Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 6:595-612 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34745: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.09.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866 | |
Reptilia | |
Ceratopsia indet. ceratopsian | |
Latenivenatrix mcmasterae n. gen. n. sp.
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