RTMP BB 138, Sandhill Creek (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.7° N, 111.5° W: paleocoordinates 58.1° N, 76.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• 14.6 m below the contact with the Dinosaur Park Formation (upper part of Oldman)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: channel lag; fine-grained sandstone

• "paucispecific, channel lag-like deposits that probably accumulated over long (> 10 and probably > 100) years after having been abraided for periods of time (> 10 years) while in a channel"
• "fine grained sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by P. J. Currie in 1996-2000; reposited in the TMP

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: M. J. Ryan and A. P. Russell. 2003. New centrosaurine ceratopsids from the late Campanian of Alberta and Montana and a review of contemporaneous and regional patterns of centrosaurine evolution. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(3):91A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 60363: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 10.05.2006, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
"Centrosaurus brinkmani n. sp." = Coronosaurus brinkmani
"Centrosaurus brinkmani n. sp." = Coronosaurus brinkmani Ryan and Russell 2005 ceratopsid
new species