RTMP Quarry 187, Little Sandhill Creek (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.7° N, 111.5° W: paleocoordinates 58.1° 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)

• lower part of DPF

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Tang in 1986; reposited in the TMP

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: P. J. Currie and X.-J. Zhao. 1994. A new troodontid (Dinosauria, Theropoda) braincase from the Dinosaur Park Formation (Campanian) of Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 30(10-11):2234-2247 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46951: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.01.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Troodontidae
"Troodon inequalis" = Stenonychosaurus inequalis
"Troodon inequalis" = Stenonychosaurus inequalis Sternberg 1932 maniraptoran
braincase, TMP 1986.036.0457