RTMP Quarry 61, Berry Creek (NMC) (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Sternberg Quarry 16, G.S.C.13

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.8° N, 111.6° W: paleocoordinates 58.1° N, 76.2° 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)

• about 100 feet below top; originally assigned to the Oldman Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. M. Sternberg in 1928; reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: C. M. Sternberg. 1932. Two new theropod dinosaurs from the Belly River Formation of Alberta. Canadian Field-Naturalist 46(5):99-105 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45755: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.11.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Caenagnathidae
"Macrophalangia canadensis n. gen. n. sp." = Chirostenotes pergracilis
"Macrophalangia canadensis n. gen. n. sp." = Chirostenotes pergracilis Gilmore 1924 maniraptoran
NMC 8538