Jenner Ferry Crossing (Cretaceous to of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.9° N, 111.1° W: paleocoordinates 58.1° N, 75.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Oldman Formation (Belly River Group), Middle Campanian to Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• listed as "Judith River Formation" and "Oldman Formation" - could possibly be from Dinosaur Park Fm. under present-day stratigraphic divisions.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coarse channel fill; sandstone

• "sandstone with little or no cross-bedding"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1980

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: E. L. Nicholls and A. R. Russell. 1981. A new specimen of Struthiomimus altus from Alberta, with comments on the classificatory characters of Upper Cretaceous ornithomimids. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 18:518-526 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61433: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 12.06.2006, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Plantae indet.
"plant debris"
Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
rib
 Theropoda - Ornithomimidae
Struthiomimus altus Lambe 1902 ornithomimid
UCMZ (VP) 1980.1