RTMP Quarry 12, middle branch, Sand Creek (125 ft level) [ROM] (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as ROM, Sternberg Quarry 87, Parasaurolophus type, U.T.7

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)

• originally assigned to the Oldman Fm., actually from near base of Dinosaur Park Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: channel lag; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, soft parts

Collected by L. W. Dippell & L. Sternberg in 1920; reposited in the ROM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: W. A. Parks. 1922. Parasaurolophus walkeri, a new genus and species of crested trachodont dinosaur. University of Toronto Studies, Geology Series 13:1-32 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46333: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.01.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Parasaurolophus walkeri n. gen. n. sp.
Parasaurolophus walkeri n. gen. n. sp. Parks 1922 lambeosaurine
ROM 768 (= Ct. 4578)