Also known as Sternberg Quarry 86, ROM, U.T.6

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.7° N, 111.5° W: paleocoordinates 58.1° N, 76.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• originally assigned to the Oldman Fm., actually from near base of Dinosaur Park Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coarse channel fill; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: soft parts

Collected by L. Sternberg & C. M. Sternberg in 1920, 1936; reposited in the CM, LACM, ROM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• ROM specimen - part now at Carnegie Museum, part now at LA County Museum

Primary reference: C. M. Sternberg. 1950. Notes and annotated list of quarries. Map 969A. Steveville, west of fourth meridian, Alberta. Canada Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 58903: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 28.02.2006, edited by Matthew Carrano

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