Also known as RTMP
Where: Alberta, Canada (52.0° N, 112.9° W: paleocoordinates 59.7° N, 84.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Carbon Member (Horseshoe Canyon Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• located between Carbon & Thompson coal zones (seams 11 & 12); middle of unit 5 within Fm., = upper 20 m of Fm., 13.5 m above base
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lenticular, concretionary, ferruginous, brown, red, silty, carbonaceous shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by G. Guthrie in 2001-2001; reposited in the TMP
Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: X.-C. Wu, D. B. Brinkman, D. A. Ebert and D. R. Braman. 2007. A new ceratopsid dinosaur (Ornithischia) from the uppermost Horseshoe Canyon Formation (upper Maastrichtian), Alberta, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 44:1243-1265 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 75475: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.10.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Eotriceratops xerinsularis n. gen. n. sp.
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