5 miles above Tolman Ferry, (150 ft level) [GSC] (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Cheneosaurus type, NMC, Red Deer River

Where: Alberta, Canada (51.9° N, 113.0° W: paleocoordinates 59.6° N, 84.6° 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)

• above sandstone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, fine-grained sandstone

• "a hard, very fine sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G. F. Sternberg in 1915; reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: L. M. Lambe. 1917. On Cheneosaurus tolmanensis, a new genus and species of trachodont dinosaur from the Edmonton Cretaceous of Alberta. The Ottawa Naturalist 30(10):117-123 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49079: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 07.04.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
"Cheneosaurus tolmanensis n. gen. n. sp." = Hypacrosaurus altispinus
"Cheneosaurus tolmanensis n. gen. n. sp." = Hypacrosaurus altispinus Brown 1913 lambeosaurine
NMC/GSC 2246