3.5 miles below Tolman Ferry (100 ft level): Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Canada
collected by B. Brown 1910, 1912
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Ankylosauridae
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Ankylosaurus sp.
Brown 1908
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1 individual | |||||||||
| AMNH 5245 (Brown 1910), pelvis | ||||||||||
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= Euoplocephalus sp.
Lambe 1910
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Coombs 1978 | |||||||||
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= Anodontosaurus lambei
Sternberg 1929
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Penkalski 2018 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Saurolophus sp.
Brown 1912
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Lull and Wright 1942 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| AMNH 5252 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 51.8° North, 113.0° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 59.6° North, 78.8° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Edmonton | Formation: | Horseshoe Canyon |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Associated major elements: | all |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,survey of museum collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | AMNH | ||
| Collectors: | B. Brown | Collection dates: | 1910, 1912 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | AMNH | ||
| Database number: | 51966 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-07-06 13:47:20 | Last modified: | 2022-03-29 04:01:32 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-07-06 13:47:20 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 58800. | B. Brown. 1913. A new crested dinosaur. The American Museum Journal 13(3):138-144 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 71135 | V. M. Arbour and P. J. Currie. 2011. Tail and pelvis pathologies of ankylosaurian dinosaurs. Historical Biology 23(4):375-390 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 17480 | ETE | W. P. Coombs. 1978. The families of the ornithischian dinosaur order Ankylosauria. Palaeontology 21(1):143-170 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 17500 | ETE | W. P. Coombs. 1995. Ankylosaurian tail clubs of middle Campanian to early Maastrichtian age from western North America, with description of a tiny club from Alberta and discussion of tail orientation and tail club function. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 32:902-912 [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] |
| 13878 | ETE | P. J. Makovicky. 2001. A Montanoceratops cerorhynchus (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia) braincase from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta. Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, D. H. Tanke and K. Carpenter (eds.), Indiana University Press, Bloomington 243-262 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 66472 | P. Penkalski. 2018. Revised systematics of the armoured dinosaur Euoplocephalus and its allies. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 287(3):261-306 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen] | |
| 62727 | L. S. Russell. 1966. Dinosaur hunting in western Canada. Royal Ontario Museum, Life Sciences Contribution 70:1-37 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |