Danek Bonebed (TMP L2379) (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (53.4° N, 113.5° W: paleocoordinates 61.2° N, 84.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Horseshoe Canyon Formation (Edmonton Group), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 2011; reposited in the TMP

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: P. Bell. 2007. The Danek Bonebed: an unusual dinosaur assemblage from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation, Edmonton, Alberta. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(3, suppl.):46A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 76062: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.11.2007, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Ceratopsidae indet.2, ? Anchiceratops ornatus2
Ceratopsidae indet.2 Marsh 1888 ceratopsid
? Anchiceratops ornatus2 Brown 1914 ceratopsid
UALVP 53301
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Edmontosaurus regalis2, Saurolophus sp.
Edmontosaurus regalis2 Lambe 1917 hadrosaurine
Saurolophus sp. Brown 1912 hadrosaurine
 Theropoda - Ornithomimidae
Ornithomimidae indet.2
Ornithomimidae indet.2 Marsh 1890 ornithomimid
 Theropoda - Troodontidae
Troodon sp.3
Troodon sp.3 Leidy 1856 maniraptoran
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
cf. Saurornitholestes sp.
cf. Saurornitholestes sp. Sues 1978 maniraptoran
tooth
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
Albertosaurus sarcophagus1
Albertosaurus sarcophagus1 Osborn 1905 Alberta lizard
1Bell and Currie 2014; 2Currie and Koppelhus 2014; 3Torices et al. 2014