RTMP Quarry 25, Red Deer River: Late/Upper Campanian, Canada
collected by L. Sternberg 1920-1926

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Ceratopsidae
Chasmosaurus brevirostris n. sp. Lull 1933
1 individual
nomen dubium belonging to Chasmosaurus
ROM 839 (old ROM Ct. 5436)
Reptilia - Caenagnathidae
cf. Caenagnathus sp. Sternberg 1940
Bell et al. 2015 1 individual
TMP 1993.036.0475, left or right manual ungual II-3
    = Caenagnathus collinsi Sternberg 1940
Funston et al. 2015
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Alberta
Coordinates: 50.8° North, 111.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:58.1° North, 76.2° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:684 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 assigned to the Oldman Fm.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: argillaceous,carbonaceous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "sandstone, plant matter, claystone"
Environment:"channel"
Geology comments: "channel top"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:ROM
Collectors:L. Sternberg Collection dates:1920-1926
Metadata
Also known as:Sternberg Quarry 24, U.T.15, ROM
Database number:58912
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:K. Maguire, M. Carrano, J. Tennant
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-02-28 13:28:54 Last modified:2021-09-02 15:39:47
Access level:the public Released:2006-02-28 13:28:54
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
12314.ETE R. S. Lull. 1933. A revision of the Ceratopsia or horned dinosaurs. Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 3(3):1-175 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

53050 P. R. Bell, P. J. Currie, and D. A. Russell. 2015. Large caenagnathids (Dinosauria, Oviraptorosauria) from the uppermost Cretaceous of western Canada. Cretaceous Research 52:101-107 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]
77935 J. A. Campbell, M. J. Ryan, R. B. Holmes and C. J. Schröder-Adams. 2016. A re-evaluation of the chasmosaurine ceratopsid genus Chasmosaurus (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Dinosaur Park Formation of western Canada. PLoS ONE 11(1):e0145805:1-39 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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]
73939 G. F. Funston. 2020. Caenagnathids of the Dinosaur Park Formation (Campanian) of Alberta, Canada: anatomy, osteohistology, taxonomy, and evolution. Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology 8:105-153 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
54018 G. F. Funston, W. S. Persons, IV, G. J. Bradley and P. J. Currie. 2015. New material of the large-bodied caenagnathid Caenagnathus collinsi from the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, Canada. Cretaceous Research 54(1):179-187 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano]
14101ETE S. J. Godfrey and R. Holmes. 1995. Cranial morphology and systematics of Chasmosaurus (Dinosauria: Ceratopsidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of western Canada. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15(4):726-742 [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]
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]