Where: Alberta, Canada (50.2° N, 113.0° W: paleocoordinates 58.1° N, 79.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: St. Mary River Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)
• originally "lower member of Edmonton Fm."
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; concretionary, sandy claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: concretion
Collected by Stewart & Sternberg in 1946; reposited in the GSC
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: C. M. Sternberg. 1947. New dinosaur from southern Alberta, representing a new family of the Ceratopsia. Geological Society America Bulletin 58:1230 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 64352: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Pachyrhinosaurus canadensis n. gen. n. sp.
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