RTMP Quarry 110, Little Sandhill Creek (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Sternberg Quarry 41, YPM, G.S.C.40

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.7° 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.; 60 ft. below overlying Pierre Shale

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: channel lag; sandstone

• "channel base"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. M. Sternberg in 1919; reposited in the YPM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: R. S. Lull. 1933. A revision of the Ceratopsia or horned dinosaurs. Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 3(3):1-175 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59047: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 07.03.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Chasmosaurus belli Lambe 1902 ceratopsid
YPM 2016