East of Huxley (NMC 9554): Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Canada
collected by C. Sternberg, W. Langston 1946, 1960, 1981
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Tyrannosauridae
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cf. Tyrannosaurus rex
Osborn 1905
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| NMC 9950, cervical | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 51.9° North, 113.2° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 59.7° North, 84.8° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
| *Period: | Late/Upper Cretaceous | *Epoch: | Senonian |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | ferruginous,red lithified sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | poor |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
| Fragmentation: | extreme |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils | ||
| Collection methods: | field collection,observed (not collected) | ||
| Collection size: | 1 specimens | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | NMC,TMP | ||
| Collectors: | C. Sternberg, W. Langston | Collection dates: | 1946, 1960, 1981 |
| Collection method comments: single phalanx collected by Langston in 1960 from an eroded and shattered skeleton weathering out of a cliff, first observed by Sternberg in 1946. The same specimen was later collected (1981) by the RTMP. | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 11918 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2001-09-19 08:02:43 | Last modified: | 2021-03-01 10:05:56 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-09-19 08:02:43 |
| 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:
| 17477 | ETE | R. E. Molnar. 1991. The cranial morphology of Tyrannosaurus rex. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 217(4-6):137-176 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |