2.5 miles south of mouth, Sand Creek (200 ft level) (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Richardoestesia type, NMC, Little Sandhill Creek

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)

• formation now a group; assigned to Dinosaur Park Fm. in ref 52782

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Sternberg in 1917; 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 45684: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.11.2004

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Richardoestesia gilmorei n. gen. n. sp.
Richardoestesia gilmorei n. gen. n. sp. Currie et al. 1990 maniraptoran
NMC 343