Also known as NMC Locality P-5701

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

• coordinate stated in text

• 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.

•Same stratigraphic level as shell bed at Site 3.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by L. S. Russell in 1955; reposited in the NMC

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: W. Langston. 1975. The ceratopsian dinosaurs and associated lower vertebrates from the St. Mary River Formation (Maestrichtian) at Scabby Butte, southern Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 12:1576-1608 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 52076: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 19.07.2005

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