2 miles below Tolman Ferry (150 ft level) [AMNH]: Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Canada
collected by B. Brown & P. Kaisen 1911
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Saurolophus osborni
Brown 1912
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Lull and Wright 1942 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| AMNH 5225, ischium | ||||||||||
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= ? Hypacrosaurus sp.
Brown 1913
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Russell and Chamney 1967 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Ankylosauridae
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Ankylosauria indet.
(Osborn 1923)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| AMNH 5223, skull | ||||||||||
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= Anodontosaurus lambei
Sternberg 1929
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Arbour and Currie 2013 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Tyrannosauridae
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Theropoda indet.
(Marsh 1881)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| AMNH 5222 | ||||||||||
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= Albertosaurus sarcophagus
Osborn 1905
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Russell 1970 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 51.8° North, 113.0° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 59.5° North, 84.6° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
| *Period: | Late/Upper Cretaceous | *Epoch: | Senonian |
| *International age/stage: | Campanian | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Edmonton | Formation: | Horseshoe Canyon | Member: | Morrin |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: upper part of formation ("Edmonton B"); 350 feet below top | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | AMNH | ||
| Collectors: | B. Brown & P. Kaisen | Collection dates: | 1911 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Red Deer River | ||
| Database number: | 11899 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Carrano, J. Tennant |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2001-09-18 14:31:02 | Last modified: | 2020-09-01 08:34:16 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-09-18 14:31:02 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 54104. | H. F. Osborn. 1912. Forty-Third Annual Report of the American Museum of Natural History for the Year 1911. Department of Vertebrate Palaeontology 102-104 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 46759 | V. M. Arbour and P. J. Currie. 2013. Euoplocephalus tutus and the diversity of ankylosaurid dinosaurs in the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada, and Montana, USA. PLoS ONE 8(5):e62421:1.-39 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano] | |
| 77259 | P. R. Bell. 2011. Cranial osteology and ontogeny of Saurolophus angustirostris from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia with comments on Saurolophus osborn from Canada. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56(4):703-722 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 51906 | D. A. Eberth, D. C. Evans, D. B. Brinkman, F. Therrien, and L. S. Russell. 2013. Dinosaur biostratigraphy of the Edmonton Group (Upper Cretaceous), Alberta, Canada: evidence for climate influence. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 50:701-726 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 12319 | ETE | 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] |
| 66472 | P. Penkalski. 2018. Revised systematics of the armoured dinosaur Euoplocephalus and its allies. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 287(3):261-306 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen] | |
| 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] |
| 18609 | ETE | D. A. Russell and T. P. Chamney. 1967. Notes on the biostratigraphy of dinosaurian and microfossil faunas in the Edmonton Formation (Cretaceous), Alberta. National Museum of Canada Natural History Papers 35:1-22 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 70928 | D. H. Tanke and P. J. Currie. 2010. A history of Albertosaurus discoveries in Alberta, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 47(9):1197-1211 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |