2 miles northeast of mouth, Little Sandhill Creek: Late/Upper Campanian, Canada
collected by C. H. Sternberg 1914
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Ankylosauridae
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Euoplocephalus sp.
Lambe 1910
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Coombs 1995 | |||||||||
CMN 2252, partial tail club | ||||||||||
= Ankylosauridae indet.
Brown 1908
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Arbour and Currie 2013 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Caenagnathidae
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Chirostenotes pergracilis n. gen., n. sp.
Gilmore 1924
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1 individual | |||||||||
NMC 2367, left and right hands | ||||||||||
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 | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Campanian | ||
Age range of interval: | 83.50000 - 70.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Belly River | Formation: | Dinosaur Park | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: formation is now series - assigned to Dinosaur Park Fm. in ref 52782. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Associated major elements: | all |
Fragmentation: | occasional |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Museum repositories: | GSC | ||
Collectors: | C. H. Sternberg | Collection dates: | 1914 |
Metadata
Also known as: | Chirostenotes type, NMC, Sand Creek | ||
Database number: | 45683 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Carrano, J. Tennant |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2004-11-23 12:55:57 | Last modified: | 2020-09-30 08:43:38 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-11-23 12:55:57 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
12060. | ETE | C. W. Gilmore. 1924. A new coelurid dinosaur from the Belly River Cretaceous of Alberta. Canada Department of Mines Geological Survey Bulletin (Geological Series) 38(43):1-12 [M. Carrano/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] | |
17500 | ETE | W. P. Coombs. 1995. Ankylosaurian tail clubs of middle Campanian to early Maastrichtian age from western North America, with description of a tiny club from Alberta and discussion of tail orientation and tail club function. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 32:902-912 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
9248 | P. J. Currie and D. A. Russell. 1988. Osteology and relationships of Chirostenotes pergracilis (Saurischia, Theropoda) from the Judith River (Oldman) Formation of Alberta, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 25:972-986 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
73939 | G. F. Funston. 2020. Caenagnathids of the Dinosaur Park Formation (Campanian) of Alberta, Canada: anatomy, osteohistology, taxonomy, and evolution. Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology 8:105-153 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
46506 | N. R. Longrich, K. Barnes, S. Clark and L. Millar. 2013. Caenagnathidae from the upper Campanian Aguja Formation of west Texas, and a revision of the Caenagnathinae. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 54(1):23-49 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano] | |
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] | |
16613 | ETE | D. J. Varricchio. 2001. Late Cretaceous oviraptorosaur (Theropoda) dinosaurs from Montana. D. H. Tanke and K. Carpenter (eds.), Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, Indiana University Press, Bloomington 42-57 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |