Sage Creek Grazing Reserve (RTMP) (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (48.0° N, 110.2° W: paleocoordinates 55.2° N, 76.3° 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)

• near top of formation, < 10 m below Lethbridge Coal Zone; stratigraphic level estimated from Fig. 4 in ref 26153

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; poorly lithified, fine-grained, ferruginous shale

• "A fine-grained, friable shale with the bones coated in a thin, but extremely hard, ironstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. Ryan in 1989–1990; reposited in the TMP

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: M. J. Ryan, R. Holmes, and A. P. Russell. 2007. A revision of the late Campanian centrosaurine ceratopsid genus Styracosaurus from the Western Interior of North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(4):944-962 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77259: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.01.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Styracosaurus albertensis Lambe 1913 ceratopsid
TMP 1989.097.0001, juvenile
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Prosaurolophus maximus1 Brown 1916 hadrosaurine
TMP 1990.045.0001; Incomplete skull
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Richardoestesia isosceles2 Sankey 2001 maniraptoran
TMP 1996.142.0019