RTMP Quarry 74, Steveville: Late/Upper Campanian, Canada
collected by C. M. Sternberg 1917
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Tyrannosauridae
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Gorgosaurus sp.
Lambe 1914
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1 individual | |||||||||
| NMC 11593 | ||||||||||
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= Gorgosaurus libratus
Lambe 1914
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Russell 1970 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 50.7° North, 111.6° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 58.0° North, 76.1° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Altitude: | 708 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| *Period: | Late/Upper Cretaceous | *Epoch: | Senonian |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Belly River | Formation: | Dinosaur Park | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: originally assigned to the Oldman Fm. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | carbonaceous sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "sandstone, plant matter" | |
| Environment: | channel lag |
| Geology comments: "channel base" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Articulated whole bodies: | some |
| 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: | GSC | ||
| Collectors: | C. M. Sternberg | Collection dates: | 1917 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | NMC, Sternberg Quarry 50, G.S.C.24 | ||
| Database number: | 11895 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2001-09-18 14:07:06 | Last modified: | 2010-07-27 11:43:30 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-09-18 14:07:06 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 33225. | ETE | 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] |
Secondary references:
| 16964 | ETE | 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] |
| 15355 | ETE | 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] |
| 19374 | ETE | 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] |
| 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] |