RTMP Quarry 16, Happy Jack Ferry (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as NMC, Sternberg Quarry 106, Styracosaurus type, G.S.C.28

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.7° N, 111.4° W: paleocoordinates 58.0° N, 75.9° 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)

• originally assigned to the Oldman Fm.; stratigraphic position estimated from Fig. 4 in ref 26153

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; gray, argillaceous, carbonaceous sandstone

• "a thick layer of light grey clayey sandstone" w/plant matter

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: soft parts

Collected by C. H. Sternberg & L. S. Sternberg in 1913, 1935; reposited in the GSC

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

• skull collected in 1913 by C. H. Sternberg; postcrania collected in 1935 by L. Sternberg

Primary reference: L. M. Lambe. 1913. A new genus and species of Ceratopsia from the Belly River Formation of Alberta. The Ottawa Naturalist 27(9):109-116 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52487: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.08.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Styracosaurus albertensis n. gen. n. sp. Lambe 1913 ceratopsid
NMC 344