right bank, Sand Creek (150 ft level) [AMNH]: Campanian, Canada
collected by Brown & Kaisen 1914
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Tyrannosauridae
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Albertosaurus libratus
(Lambe 1914)
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1 individual | |||||||||
original and current combination Gorgosaurus libratus | ||||||||||
AMNH 5458; field no. 23 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
Coordinates: | 50.7° North, 111.6° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 57.9° North, 75.4° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
Key time interval: | Campanian | ||
Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Belly River | Formation: | Oldman |
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Articulated whole bodies: | all |
Fragmentation: | none |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Museum repositories: | AMNH | ||
Collectors: | Brown & Kaisen | Collection dates: | 1914 |
Metadata
Database number: | 52484 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-08-08 14:42:07 | Last modified: | 2018-01-19 10:40:40 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-08-08 14:42:07 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
4205. | 5% 39600 | D. 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] |