RTMP Quarry 35, Red Deer River (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Sternberg Quarry 27, Gryposaurus type, NMC, G.S.C.5

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.8° N, 111.6° W: paleocoordinates 58.1° N, 76.1° 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.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, soft parts

Collected by G. F. Sternberg in 1913; reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: L. M. Lambe. 1914. On Gryposaurus notabilis, a new genus and species of trachodont dinosaur from the Belly River Formation of Alberta, with a description of the skull of Chasmosaurus belli. The Ottawa Naturalist 27(11):145-155 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 58947: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 01.03.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Gryposaurus notabilis n. gen. n. sp.
Gryposaurus notabilis n. gen. n. sp. Lambe 1914 hadrosaurine
NMC 2278