RTMP Quarry 6, Sand Creek [AMNH]: Late/Upper Campanian, Canada
collected by C. H. Sternberg 1917

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Tyrannosauridae
Gorgosaurus libratus Lambe 1914
1 specimen
(10 measurements)
    = Gorgosaurus sternbergi n. sp. Matthew and Brown 1922
Matthew and Brown 1922
synonym of Gorgosaurus libratus
AMNH 5664; field no. 5
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Alberta
Coordinates: 50.7° North, 111.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:58.1° North, 76.1° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:669 meters
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
*Period:Late/Upper Cretaceous *Epoch:Senonian
Key time interval:Late/Upper Campanian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Belly River Formation:Dinosaur Park
Regional section:Dinosaur Park Regional bed:4.135 m
Regional order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: originally assigned to the Oldman Fm.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:"channel"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Articulated whole bodies:some
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:AMNH
Collectors:C. H. Sternberg Collection dates:1917
Metadata
Also known as:Sternberg Quarry 54
Database number:11890
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2001-09-18 13:51:51 Last modified:2018-01-19 10:38:12
Access level:the public Released:2001-09-18 13:51:51
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
36144.ETE C. H. Sternberg. 1918. Sternberg's expedition to the Red Deer River, Alberta, 1917. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 29:88-91 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

16964ETE 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]
16982ETE P. J. Currie and D. A. Russell. 2005. The geographic and stratigraphic distribution of articulated and associated dinosaur remains. In P. J. Currie and E. B. Koppelhus (eds.), Dinosaur Provincial Park: A Spectacular Ancient Ecosystem Revealed. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 537-569 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
15355ETE J. Danis. 1986. Quarries of Dinosaur Provincial Park. In B. G. Naylor (ed.), Field Trip Guidebook to Dinosaur Provincial Park, 2 June 1986. Dinosaur Systematics Symposium, Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Drumheller, Alberta 43-51 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
19374ETE P. Dodson. 1971. Sedimentology and taphonomy of the Oldman Formation (Campanian), Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta (Canada). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 10:21-74 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13165ETE W. D. Matthew and B. Brown. 1922. The family Deinodontidae, with notice of a new genus from the Cretaceous of Alberta. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 46(6):367-385 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
62756 H. F. Osborn. 1920. Extinct vertebrates. Fifty-First Annual Report of the American Museum of Natural History for the Year 1919 92-97 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
42055% 39600D. A. Russell. 1970. Tyrannosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of western Canada. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Publications in Paleontology 1:1-34 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]
62727 L. S. Russell. 1966. Dinosaur hunting in western Canada. Royal Ontario Museum, Life Sciences Contribution 70:1-37 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
33225ETE C. M. Sternberg. 1950. Notes and annotated list of quarries. Map 969A. Steveville, west of fourth meridian, Alberta. Canada Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]