Also known as Leptoceratops type
Where: Alberta, Canada (51.8° N, 113.0° W: paleocoordinates 59.5° N, 84.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Scollard Formation (Edmonton Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• 400 ft above Pierre Shale, near top of beds
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone and sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by B. Brown & P. Kaisen in 1910; reposited in the AMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: B. Brown. 1914. Cretaceous Eocene correlation in New Mexico, Wyoming, Montana, Alberta. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 25:355-380 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 64628: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Leptoceratops gracilis n. gen. n. sp.1
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