Also known as Hypacrosaurus type, Red Deer River
Where: Alberta, Canada (51.9° N, 113.0° W: paleocoordinates 59.6° N, 84.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Horseshoe Canyon Formation (Edmonton Group), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• 500? ft below top of "formation", probably just above base of unit 4, above Drumheller Marine Tongue.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by B. Brown & P. Kaisen in 1910; reposited in the AMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: B. Brown. 1913. A new trachodont dinosaur, Hypacrosaurus, from the Edmonton Cretaceous of Alberta. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 32(20):395-406 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 64432: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Hypacrosaurus altispinus n. gen. n. sp.
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