RTMP Quarry 147 (DPP) (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.7° N, 111.5° W: paleocoordinates 58.1° N, 76.0° 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 coming from the Judith River (Oldman) Formation. The currently used stratigraphical nomenclature for Dinosaur Provincial Park recognizes a Late Campanian Dinosaur Park Formation, which is distinct from the Oldman Formation and overlies it. Specimen TMP 79.14.247 comes from the lower half of the Dinosaur Park Formation, in which quarry 147 is located"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D. L. Ost in 1979; reposited in the TMP

Primary reference: P. J. Currie and K. Padian. 1983. A new pterosaur record from the Judith River (Oldman) Formation of Alberta. Journal of Paleontology 57(3):599-600 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34750: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 22.09.2003, edited by Richard Butler

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Taxonomic list

Aves
 Enantiornithes -
Euenantiornithes indet. Chiappe 2002 bird
TMP 1979.14.247, described as distal end of tibia