Also known as FC, Midland Provincial Park, Day Digs
Where: Alberta, Canada (51.5° N, 112.7° W: paleocoordinates 59.1° N, 84.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Horsethief Member (Horseshoe Canyon Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; lenticular, brown, sandy siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected in 1999–2001; reposited in the TMP
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),
Primary reference: D. A. Eberth, P. J. Currie, D. B. Brinkman, M. J. Ryan, D. R. Braman, J. D. Gardner, V. D. Lam, D. N. Spivak, and A. G. Neuman. 2001. Alberta's dinosaurs and other fossil vertebrates: Judith River and Edmonton groups (Campanian-Maastrichtian). In C. L. Hill (ed), Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 61st Annual Meeting, Bozeman. Guidebook for the Field Trips: Mesozoic and Cenozoic Paleontology in the Western Plains and Rocky Mountains, Museum of the Rockies Occasional Paper 3:49-75 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 94370: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.02.2010, edited by Jonathan Tennant
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Polypodiopsida | |
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Azolla sp.2 Lamarck 1783 | |
cf. Dennstaedtia sp.2 Bernhardi 1800 | |
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Angiospermae | |
Albertarum pueri n. gen. n. sp.2
Albertarum pueri n. gen. n. sp.2 Bogner et al. 2005 | |
Dicotyledoneae | |
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Pinopsida | |
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Reptilia | |
Albertosaurus sp. Osborn 1905 Alberta lizard | |
Anodontosaurus lambei1 Sternberg 1929 ankylosaurid TMP 1982.9.3, 2 posterior dorsals w/coossifed ribs, partial pelvis, R femur, osteoderms incl. cervical half ring frags.
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Insecta | |
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Gastropoda | |
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