RTMP Quarry 108, Little Sandhill Creek (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as L. magnicristatus type, NMC, Sternberg Quarry 46, G.S.C.38

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.7° N, 111.6° 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)

• 10 feet below Bearpaw Shale; originally assigned to the Oldman Fm.; high within formation, 47 m above contact with Oldman Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: channel lag; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. M. Sternberg in 1919; reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: C. M. Sternberg. 1935. Hooded hadrosaurs of the Belly River Series of the Upper Cretaceous. Canada Department of Mines Bulletin (Geological Series) 77(52):1-37 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51863: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 28.06.2005, edited by Jonathan Tennant

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae
Ankylosauridae indet. Brown 1908 ankylosaurid
CMN 135, tail club knob
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
"Lambeosaurus magnicristatum n. sp." = Lambeosaurus magnicristatus
"Lambeosaurus magnicristatum n. sp." = Lambeosaurus magnicristatus Sternberg 1935 lambeosaurine
NMC/GSC 8705