north fork, Sand Creek (250 ft level) [AMNH] (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Prosaurolophus type

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.7° N, 111.5° W: paleocoordinates 58.1° N, 76.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Dinosaur Park Formation (Belly River Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• 100 ft below top of Belly River beds

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Brown & Johnson in 1915; reposited in the AMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: B. Brown. 1916. A new crested trachodont dinosaur, Prosaurolophus maximus. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 35(37):701-708 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64632: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Prosaurolophus maximus n. gen. n. sp.
Prosaurolophus maximus n. gen. n. sp. Brown 1916 hadrosaurine
AMNH 5386