northeast of Elnora (NMC) (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Red Deer River

Where: Alberta, Canada (52.1° N, 113.0° W: paleocoordinates 59.8° N, 84.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Scollard Formation (Edmonton Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• 50 ft above base of "Upper Edmonton Member"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. M. Sternberg & T. P. Chamney in 1947; reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: C. M. Sternberg. 1950. Leptoceratops, the most primitive horned dinosaur, from the Upper Edmonton of Alberta. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, series 3 44:229 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64353: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.09.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Leptoceratopsidae
Leptoceratops gracilis Brown 1914 leptoceratopsid
NMC 8887, 8888, 8889