RTMP Quarry 63, Steveville: Late/Upper Campanian, Canada
collected by Lowe & C. M. Sternberg 1928

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Ceratopsidae
Chasmosaurus sp. Lambe 1914
1 individual
NMC 8801
    = Chasmosaurus russelli Sternberg 1940
Sternberg 1940
    = Kosmoceratops sp. Sampson et al. 2010
Longrich 2014
"n. sp. (?)"
    = Chasmosaurus sp. Lambe 1914
Campbell et al. 2016
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:670 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.; bottom 10 m of Dinosaur Park Fm.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:channel lag
Geology comments: "channel base"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:all
Associated major elements:some
Fragmentation:frequent
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:GSC
Collectors:Lowe & C. M. Sternberg Collection dates:1928
Metadata
Also known as:Sternberg Quarry 31, G.S.C.15, NMC
Database number:59006
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:K. Maguire, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-03-06 10:42:27 Last modified:2021-09-02 14:50:40
Access level:the public Released:2006-03-06 10:42:27
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:

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]
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]
59189 N. R. Longrich. 2014. The horned dinosaurs Pentaceratops and Kosmoceratops from the upper Campanian of Alberta and implications for dinosaur biogeography. Cretaceous Research 51:292-308 [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]
18595ETE C. M. Sternberg. 1940. Ceratopsidae from Alberta. Journal of Paleontology 14(5):468-480 [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]