RTMP BB 156 (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Bonebed 156, Cutler Bonebed, False Cutler Styracosaur Bonebed

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.8° N, 111.6° W: paleocoordinates 58.1° N, 76.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• 20 m above Dinosaur Park/Oldman contact

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: channel lag; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D. Marsh & M. J. Ryan in 2002; reposited in the TMP

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: D. A. Eberth and M. A. Getty. 2005. Ceratopsian bonebeds: occurrence, origins, and significance. In P. J. Currie and E. B. Koppelhus (eds.), Dinosaur Provincial Park: A Spectacular Ancient Ecosystem Revealed. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 501-536 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 65929: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.09.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• includes undescribed "mixed faunal" elements
Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Centrosaurus apertus Lambe 1905 ceratopsid
RTMP 98.68.33