North Baby Butte, Devil's Coulee (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (49.3° N, 112.2° W: paleocoordinates 56.8° N, 77.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Oldman Formation (Belly River Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Found in the uppermost 100 m of the 650 m thick formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, green mudstone

• "greenish-grey mudstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1987, 1989, 1995; reposited in the TMP

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

• embryonic material

Primary reference: J. R. Horner and P. J. Currie. 1994. Embryonic and neonatal morphology and ontogeny of a new species of Hypacrosaurus (Ornithischia, Lambeosauridae) from Montana and Alberta. In K. Carpenter, K. F. Hirsch, and J. R. Horner (eds.), Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 312-336 [A. Behrensmeyer/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 53050: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 01.09.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano and Albert Garcia Selles

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hypacrosaurus stebingeri Horner and Currie 1994 lambeosaurine
embryonic skeletal material
  - Prismatoolithidae
Prismatoolithus levis3 Zelenitsky and Hills 1996 dinosaur
TMP 94.157.2, TMP 94.157.8
 Theropoda - Elongatoolithidae
Continuoolithus canadensis4 Zelenitsky et al. 1996 theropod
TMP 94.157.15Aā€“94.157.15C, 94.157.15Eā€“94.157.15R, 94.157.17Aā€“94.157.17D, 94.157.17ā€“-94.157.17H
 Theropoda -
Paronychodon sp.2 Cope 1876 maniraptoran
TMP 1992.077.0006
 Theropoda - Troodontidae
Troodon sp.2 Leidy 1856 maniraptoran
TMP 1989.077.0005
Troodon formosus1 Leidy 1856 maniraptoran
TMP 1987.077.0135
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Dromaeosaurus albertensis1 Matthew and Brown 1922 maniraptoran
TMP 1989.077.0006, 1992.077.0002
Saurornitholestes langstoni1 Sues 1978 maniraptoran
TMP 1987.077.0120, 1995.092.0054