RTMP Quarry 86, Little Sandhill Creek: Late/Upper Campanian, Canada
collected by C. H. Sternberg 1914

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
Trachodontidae indet. Lydekker 1888
1 individual
CMN 2277
    = Prosaurolophus sp. Brown 1916
Sternberg 1917
    = Prosaurolophus maximus Brown 1916
Sternberg 1950
NMC 2277, skull
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Alberta
Coordinates: 50.7° North, 111.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:58.1° North, 76.0° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:694 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., actually from middle of Dinosaur Park Fm.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:pebbly argillaceous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "sandstone, clay pebbles"
Environment:"channel"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Associated major elements:all
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:NMC
Collectors:C. H. Sternberg Collection dates:1914
Metadata
Also known as:Sternberg Quarry 82, NMC, G.S.C.31, Red Deer River
Database number:59021
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:K. Maguire, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-03-06 11:46:27 Last modified:2022-10-26 13:49:07
Access level:the public Released:2006-03-06 11:46:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
62883. L. M. Lambe. 1915. Report of the vertebrate palaeontologist. Summary report of the Geological Survey Department of Mines for the Calendar Year 1914 1503:116-121 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

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]
82936 D. A. Eberth and D. C. Evans. 2011. International Hadrosaur Symposium Post-Symposium Field Trip, September 24, 2011. Geology and Palaeontology of Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta. Royal Tyrrell Museum Special Publication 1-52 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
12319ETE 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]
62727 L. S. Russell. 1966. Dinosaur hunting in western Canada. Royal Ontario Museum, Life Sciences Contribution 70:1-37 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14117ETE C. H. Sternberg. 1917. Five years' explorations in the fossil beds of Alberta. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 28:205-211 [M. Carrano/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]