RTMP Quarry 133, Red Deer River (NMC): Late/Upper Campanian, Canada
collected by I. Vanderloh, D. A. Russell, P. Currie 1968, 1979
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Ceratopsia indet.
Marsh 1890
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Reptilia
- Troodontidae
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Stenonychosaurus inequalis
Sternberg 1932
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1 individual | |||||||||
| NMC 12340 (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
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= Troodon formosus
Leidy 1856
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Kurzanov and Osmólska 1991 | |||||||||
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= Latenivenatrix mcmasterae n. gen., n. sp.
van der Reest and Currie 2017
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van der Reest and Currie 2017 | |||||||||
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unclassified
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Plantae indet.
Haeckel 1866
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 50.8° North, 111.3° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 58.1° North, 75.8° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Altitude: | 700 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Belly River | Formation: | Dinosaur Park | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: originally described as from the Oldman Fm. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray,yellow claystone |
| Secondary lithology: | white,blue silty,carbonaceous sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Bones occurred "in the plane of contact between yellow-gray clay below and bluish-white silty sandstone streaked with lignitic bands above." | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,coalified |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Articulated whole bodies: | none |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | NMC | ||
| Collectors: | I. Vanderloh, D. A. Russell, P. Currie | Collection dates: | 1968, 1979 |
| Collection method comments: additional collecting in 1979 | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 34745 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-09-19 10:56:22 | Last modified: | 2017-01-26 16:48:41 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-09-19 10:56:22 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 9232. | D. A. Russell. 1969. A new specimen of Stenonychosaurus from the Oldman Formation (Cretaceous) of Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 6:595-612 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 18556 | ETE | P. J. Currie. 1980. Mesozoic vertebrate life in Alberta and British Columbia. Mesozoic Vertebrate Life 1:27-40 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 56332 | P. J. Currie. 1985. Cranial anatomy of Stenonychosaurus inequalis (Saurischia, Theropoda) and its bearing on the origin of birds. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 22(11):1643-1658 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 16964 | ETE | 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] |
| 15355 | ETE | 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] |
| 13889 | ETE | S. M. Kurzanov and H. Osmólska. 1991. Tochisaurus nemegtensis gen. et sp. n., a new troodontid dinosaur (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from Mongolia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 36(1):69-76 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 67471 | A. J. van der Reest and P. J. Currie. 2017. Troodontids (Theropoda) from the Dinosaur Park Formation, Alberta, with a description of a unique new taxon: implications for deinonychosaur diversity in North America . Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 54:919-935 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd/M. Carrano] | |
| 61480 | M. C. Wilson and P. J. Currie. 1985. Stenonychosaurus inequalis (Saurischia: Theropoda) from the Judith River (Oldman) Formation of Alberta: new findings on metatarsal structure. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 22(12):1813-1817 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |