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)
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