Knudsen's Coulee (NMC 9954): Late Maastrichtian, Canada
collected by C. M. Sternberg, W. Langston 1946, 1962
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Aquilapollenites reticulatus
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Lerbekmo et al. 1979 | |||||||||
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Aquilapollenites reductus
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Lerbekmo et al. 1979 | |||||||||
| Aquilapollenites sp. cf. attenuatus | ||||||||||
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Aquilapollenites cf. attenuatus
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Lerbekmo et al. 1979 | |||||||||
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Wodehouseia spinata
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Lerbekmo et al. 1979 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Tyrannosauridae
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cf. Tyrannosaurus rex
Osborn 1905
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| NMC 9554 | ||||||||||
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= Tyrannosaurus rex
Osborn 1905
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Eberth et al. 2001 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 51.9° North, 113.0° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 59.8° North, 84.0° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
| *Period: | Late/Upper Cretaceous | *Epoch: | Senonian |
| Key time interval: | Late Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 72.1 - 66 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Scollard | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "upper Edmonton Formation"; now Scollard; 52 m above base (Kneehills Tuff), 4.3 m above Nevis Seam no. 13 and 13 m below Ardley Seam no. 14 - corrected to 34.5 m above base and 10.5 m below Nevis | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | concretionary sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "concretionary zone in the basal part of a channel sandstone" | |
| Environment: | "channel" |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection,observed (not collected) | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | GSC | ||
| Collectors: | C. M. Sternberg, W. Langston | Collection dates: | 1946, 1962 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | East of Huxley | ||
| Database number: | 11917 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2001-09-19 08:00:19 | Last modified: | 2024-12-06 14:52:46 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-09-19 08:00:19 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 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] |
Secondary references:
| 4218 | D. A. Eberth, P. J. Currie, D. B. Brinkman, M. J. Ryan, D. R. Braman, J. D. Gardner, V. D. Lam, D. N. Spivak, and A. G. Neuman. 2001. Alberta's dinosaurs and other fossil vertebrates: Judith River and Edmonton groups (Campanian-Maastrichtian). In C. L. Hill (ed), Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 61st Annual Meeting, Bozeman. Guidebook for the Field Trips: Mesozoic and Cenozoic Paleontology in the Western Plains and Rocky Mountains, Museum of the Rockies Occasional Paper 3:49-75 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano] | |
| 90014 | J. LeBlanc. 2024. Review of the Surface Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) Boundary Localities of Alberta, Canada. 126 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 12570 | ETE | J. F. Lerbekmo, C. Singh, D. M. Jarzen and D. A. Russell. 1979. The Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary in south-central Alberta—a revision based on additional dinosaurian and microfloral evidence . Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 16(9):1866-1869 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen] |
| 17477 | ETE | R. E. Molnar. 1991. The cranial morphology of Tyrannosaurus rex. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 217(4-6):137-176 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 12569 | ETE | D. A. Russell and C. Singh. 1978. The Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in south-central Alberta—a reappraisal based on dinosaurian and microfloral extinctions. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 15:284-292 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |