RTMP Quarry 72, Steveville, (NMC): Middle Campanian, Canada
collected by C. M. Sternberg 1921
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Tyrannosauridae
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Gorgosaurus sp.
Lambe 1914
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1 specimen | |||||||||
(7 measurements) | ||||||||||
= Daspletosaurus torosus n. gen., n. sp.
Russell 1970
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Russell 1970 | |||||||||
NMC 8506 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
Coordinates: | 50.8° North, 111.5° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 58.1° North, 76.0° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Altitude: | 658 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: | Middle Campanian | ||
Age range of interval: | 83.50000 - 70.60000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Belly River | Formation: | Oldman |
Regional section: | Dinosaur Park | Regional bed: | -3.91 m |
Regional order: | bottom to top | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | argillaceous,silty sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "sandstone, claystone, siltstone" | |
Environment: | fine channel fill |
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: | paleoecologic analysis | ||
Museum repositories: | NMC | ||
Collectors: | C. M. Sternberg | Collection dates: | 1921 |
Metadata
Also known as: | Daspletosaurus type, Sternberg Quarry 88, G.S.C.23 | ||
Database number: | 11915 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2001-09-19 07:54:59 | Last modified: | 2010-07-27 11:45:38 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-09-19 07:54:59 |
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] |
52782 | M. J. Ryan and A. P. Russell. 2001. Dinosaurs of Alberta (exclusive of Aves). In D. H. Tanke & K. Carpenter (ed.), Mesozoic Vertebrate Life 279-298 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |