RTMP Quarry 2, Happy Jack Ferry (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Red Deer River, Sternberg Quarry 93, ROM, U.T.2

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 assigned to the Oldman Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: soft parts

Collected by L. Sternberg in 1919; reposited in the ROM

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: W. A. Parks. 1924. Dyoplosaurus acutosquameus, a new genus and species of armoured dinosaur; and notes on a skeleton of Prosaurolophus maximus. University of Toronto Studies, Geological Series 18:1-35 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46332: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.01.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae
Dyoplosaurus acutosquameus n. gen. n. sp. Parks 1924 ankylosaurid
ROM 784