Drumheller bone bed, Munson Ferry (80 ft level): Late Campanian - Early Maastrichtian, Canada
collected by W. Langston 1960, 1993-1998
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Batrachosauroididae
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Opisthotriton sp.
Auffenberg 1961
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Ryan and Eberth 1995 | |||||||||
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Urodela
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Scapherpeton sp.
Cope 1876
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Ryan and Eberth 1995 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Tyrannosauridae
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Albertosaurus sp.
Osborn 1905
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Ryan and Eberth 1995 | 150 specimens | ||||||||
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Reptilia
- Troodontidae
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cf. Troodon sp.
Leidy 1856
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Larson and Currie 2013 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
| TMP 1974.001.0001-02, 1985.012.0002 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Dromaeosauridae
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Richardoestesia cf. gilmorei
Currie et al. 1990
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Larson and Currie 2013 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| TMP 1983.033.0017 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Ceratopsidae
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? Pachyrhinosaurus sp.
Sternberg 1950
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Currie et al. 2008 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
| TMP 1993.29.4, 1993.29.5, 1995.91.1 | ||||||||||
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Pachyrhinosaurus cf. canadensis
Sternberg 1950
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| "Drumheller skull" | ||||||||||
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= Pachyrhinosaurus canadensis
Sternberg 1950
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Langston 1968 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Hadrosauridae indet.
Cope 1869
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2000 specimens | |||||||||
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= Edmontosaurus sp.
Lambe 1917
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Ryan and Eberth 1995 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Testudines indet.
Batsch 1788
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Ryan and Eberth 1995 | |||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
- Lepisosteidae
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Lepisosteus sp.
Agassiz 1843
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Ryan and Eberth 1995 | |||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Rajiformes
- Rhinobatidae
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Myledaphus sp.
Cope 1876
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Ryan and Eberth 1995 | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 51.6° North, 112.9° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 59.3° North, 78.8° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Altitude: | 701 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian - Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 - Cretaceous 8 |
| Key time interval: | Late Campanian - Early Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.6 - 66 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Edmonton | Formation: | Horseshoe Canyon | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: found "low in the lower member of the Edmonton Formation" (now = Horseshoe Canyon Fm.) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | concretionary,gray carbonaceous "shale" |
| Secondary lithology: | lithified conglomerate |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "Dark gray carbonaceous shale containing comminuted plant fragments surrounded the fossil. A thin layer of hard, clay-pellet conglomerate lay just beneath it...zones of concretionary induration (so-called clay-ironstone) have developed adjacent to the bone." | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Lagerst�tten type: | concentrate |
| Degree of concentration: | -bonebed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | variable |
| Associated major elements: | many |
| Disassociated major elements: | many |
| Disassociated minor elements: | many |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Bioerosion: | frequent |
| Feeding/predation traces: | tooth marks |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,selective quarrying,mechanical,sieve,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | W. Langston | Collection dates: | 1960s, 1993-1998 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Bleriot Ferry; RTMP Locality L1504 | ||
| Database number: | 34744 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-09-19 10:34:58 | Last modified: | 2021-06-04 13:29:11 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-09-19 10:34:58 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 9231. | W. Langston. 1967. The thick-headed ceratopsian dinosaur Pachyrhinosaurus (Reptilia: Ornithischia), from the Edmonton Formation near Drumheller, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 4:171-186 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 32668 | ETE | P. J. Currie, W. Langston, and D. H. Tanke. 2008. A new species of Pachyrhinosaurus (Dinosauria, Ceratopsidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada. In P. J. Currie, W. Langston, & D. H. Tanke (eds.), in A New Horned Dinosaur from an Upper Cretaceous Bone Bed in Alberta 1-108 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 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] | |
| 14096 | ETE | W. Langston. 1968. A further note on Pachyrinosaurus (Reptilia: Ceratopsia). Journal of Paleontology 42(5):1303-1304 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 48570 | D. W. Larson and P. J. Currie. 2013. Multivariate analyses of small theropod dinosaur teeth and implications for paleoecological turnover through time. PLoS ONE 8(1):e54329:1-14 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 17034 | ETE | M. J. Ryan and D. A. Eberth. 1995. Taphonomy of a hadrosaur (Ornithischia: Hadrosauridae) bone bed from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation (early Maastrichtian), Alberta, Canada. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15(3, suppl.):51A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |