Rumsey Ferry road (100 ft level) [ROM] (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Parksosaurus type

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.9° N, 111.8° W: paleocoordinates 58.4° N, 83.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tolman Member (Horseshoe Canyon Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• sandstone level or above

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, concretionary, white sandstone

• "a concretion of hard, white sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected by Sternberg in 1922; reposited in the ROM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: W. A. Parks. 1926. Thescelosaurus warreni, a new species of orthopodous dinosaur from the Edmonton Formation of Alberta. University of Toronto Studies, Geology Series 21:1-42 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48624: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.03.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Neornithischia - Thescelosauridae
"Thescelosaurus warreni n. sp." = Parksosaurus warreni
"Thescelosaurus warreni n. sp." = Parksosaurus warreni Parks 1926 ornithischian
ROM 804 (= Ct. 5202; field no. 2)