Milk River Ridge Reservoir Bonebed (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as MRR BB

Where: Alberta, Canada (49.3° N, 112.2° W: paleocoordinates 56.7° N, 77.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Oldman Formation (Belly River Group), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• approx. 70 m below the dated bentonite (76 Ma) at the Devil's Coulee nesting site

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: channel lag; lithology not reported

• "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"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with calcite

Collected in 1998; reposited in the TMP

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: M. J. Ryan and A. P. Russell. 2001. Dinosaurs of Alberta (exclusive of Aves). In D. H. Tanke & K. Carpenter (ed.), Mesozoic Vertebrate Life 279-298 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 60364: 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" = Coronosaurus brinkmani
"Centrosaurus brinkmani" = Coronosaurus brinkmani Ryan and Russell 2005 ceratopsid
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
Tyrannosauridae indet. Osborn 1906 tyrannosaurid
TMP 1992.030.0219, tooth