Sand Creek, Red Deer River (NMC 2379) (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.8° N, 111.5° W: paleocoordinates 58.0° N, 75.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Belly River Group, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Sternberg in 1917; reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: B. Brown and E. M. Schlaikjer. 1943. A study of the troƶdont dinosaurs with the description of a new genus and four new species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 82(5):115-150 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64663: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
"Troodon validus" = Stegoceras validum
"Troodon validus" = Stegoceras validum Lambe 1902 ornithischian
NMC 2379