Sandhill Creek (116 ft): Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian, Canada
collected by W. Parks, R. Wilson, W. Hodgson 1918
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Kritosaurus incurvimanus n. sp.
Parks 1919
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1 individual | |||||||||
| synonym of Gryposaurus notabilis | ||||||||||
| ROM 764 (= ROM 4514 Ct.) (3 measurements) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 50.8° North, 111.5° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 58.1° North, 76.0° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| Key time interval: | Middle Campanian - 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: "Belly River series", low in formation, 16 m above contact w/Oldman | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | concretionary,ferruginous,white lithified argillaceous sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "sandstone containing numerous hard concretions of clay ironstone...buried the skeleton in white sand which has become an extremely hard sandstone showing pronounced cross bedding which dips 30°N.60°E...a thin film of clay ironstone has formed over the surface of some of the bones." | |
| Environment: | shoreface |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,soft parts |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | excellent |
| Articulated whole bodies: | all |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | ROM | ||
| Collectors: | W. Parks, R. Wilson, W. Hodgson | Collection dates: | 1918 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | G. incurvimanus type, ROM, RTMP Quarry 99, DPP | ||
| Database number: | 46331 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-01-11 06:58:14 | Last modified: | 2017-07-12 12:48:10 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-01-11 06:58:14 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 14121. | ETE | W. A. Parks. 1919. Preliminary description of a new species of trachodont dinosaur of the genus Kritosaurus. Kritosaurus incurvimanus. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, series 3 13:51-59 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 54196 | Anonymous. 1922. Fossil vertebrates. Natural History 22:92 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 10628 | ETE | J. R. Horner. 1992. Cranial morphology of Prosaurolophus (Ornithischia: Hadrosauridae) with descriptions of two new hadrosaurid species and an evaluation of hadrosaurid phylogenetic relationships. Museum of the Rockies Occasional Paper 2:1-119 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 12319 | ETE | R. S. Lull and N. E. Wright. 1942. Hadrosaurian dinosaurs of North America. Geological Society of America Special Paper 40:1-242 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 12346 | ETE | W. A. Parks. 1920. The osteology of the trachodont dinosaur Kritosaurus incurvimanus. University of Toronto Studies, Geology Series 11:1-76 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 32772 | ETE | A. Prieto-Marquez. 2010. The braincase and skull of Gryposaurus notabilis (Dinosauria, Hadrosauridae), with a taxonomic revision of the genus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(3):838-854 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 62727 | L. S. Russell. 1966. Dinosaur hunting in western Canada. Royal Ontario Museum, Life Sciences Contribution 70:1-37 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 62062 | H.-D. Sues. 1997. Royal Ontario Museum. In P. J. Currie & K. Padian (ed.), Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs 644-645 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 54970 | D. H. Tanke and D. C. Evans. 2014. Relocating the lost Gryposaurus incurvimanus holotype quarry, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada. In D. A. Eberth & D. C. Evans (ed.), Hadrosaurs 385-395 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |