RTMP Quarry 240, Iddesleigh (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as U109

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.8° N, 111.4° W: paleocoordinates 58.0° N, 75.9° 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)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fine channel fill; ferruginous, gray, calcareous siltstone and ferruginous, calcareous sandstone

• "near the base of a 9 m thick, multistoried channel fill...the sediments surrounding the specimen comprise thinly interbedded grey silststones and very fine grained sandstones, all of which are plant fragment rich and locally cemented with reddish-brown iron carbonate."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G. Johnson, K. Kruger in 1999-2002; reposited in the TMP

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: P. J. Currie. 2005. History of research. In P. J. Currie and E. B. Koppelhus (eds.), Dinosaur Provincial Park: A Spectacular Ancient Ecosystem Revealed. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 3-33 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 97762: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.08.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
"Pachyrhinosaurinae" indet.
"Pachyrhinosaurinae" indet. Huene 1950 ceratopsid
TMP 2002.76.1