Scabby Butte, Site 1 (Cretaceous to of Canada)

Also known as NMC Locality P-4611

Where: Alberta, Canada (49.9° N, 113.0° W: paleocoordinates 57.8° N, 80.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: St. Mary River Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• Refer to Langston, W., Jr. 1975. A late Cretaceous vertebrate fauna from the St. Mary River Formation in western Canada. Athlon, Roy. Ont. Mus. Spec. Publ.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Erdman & C. M. Sternberg in 1945–1946; reposited in the GSC, NMC

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: C. M. Sternberg. 1950. Pachyrhinosaurus canadensis, representing a new family of the Ceratopsia, from southern Alberta. National Museum of Canada Bulletin 118:109-120 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 52071: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 19.07.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Pachyrhinosaurus canadensis Sternberg 1950 ceratopsid
NMC 8860