2 miles S of Little Sandhill Creek [NMC] (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Sand Creek

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.7° N, 111.5° W: paleocoordinates 58.0° N, 76.1° 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)

• likely from Dinosaur Park Fm., but some possibility that it came from the uppermost Oldman Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. M. Sternberg in 1917; reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1924. On the genus Stephanosaurus, with a description of the type specimen of Lambeosaurus lambei, Parks. Canada Department of Mines Geological Survey Bulletin (Geological Series) 38(43):29-48 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76055: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.11.2007

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Parasaurolophus sp. Parks 1922 lambeosaurine
NMC/GSC 8502