2 miles northeast of mouth, Little Sandhill Creek (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Chirostenotes type, NMC, Sand Creek

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.8° 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)

• formation is now series - assigned to Dinosaur Park Fm. in ref 52782.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. H. Sternberg in 1914; reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1924. A new coelurid dinosaur from the Belly River Cretaceous of Alberta. Canada Department of Mines Geological Survey Bulletin (Geological Series) 38(43):1-12 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45683: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.11.2004, edited by Jonathan Tennant

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae
Ankylosauridae indet. Brown 1908 ankylosaurid
CMN 2252, partial tail club
 Theropoda - Caenagnathidae
Chirostenotes pergracilis n. gen. n. sp. Gilmore 1924 maniraptoran
NMC 2367, left and right hands