4 miles above Tolman Ferry (50 ft level) [AMNH] (Cretaceous of Canada)

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

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hypacrosaurus altispinus n. gen. n. sp.
Hypacrosaurus altispinus n. gen. n. sp. Brown 1913 lambeosaurine
AMNH 5204