mouth of Three Hills Creek, Horsethief Canyon (200 ft level): Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Canada
collected by L. Sternberg 1912
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Edmontosaurus regalis n. gen., n. sp.
Lambe 1917
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1 individual | |||||||||
| NMC 2288 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 51.5° North, 112.9° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 59.2° North, 84.6° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Edmonton | Formation: | Horseshoe Canyon | Member: | Horsethief |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: below N. 9 coal seam | |||||
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 |
| Articulated whole bodies: | all |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | GSC | ||
| Collectors: | L. Sternberg | Collection dates: | 1912 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Threehills Creek, Edmontosaurus type, NMC/GSC, Red Deer River | ||
| Database number: | 51316 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-06-02 13:26:21 | Last modified: | 2021-06-04 13:25:21 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-06-02 13:26:21 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 17549. | ETE | L. M. Lambe. 1917. A new genus and species of crestless hadrosaur from the Edmonton Formation of Alberta. The Ottawa Naturalist 31(7):65-73 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 54992 | N. E. Campione. 2014. Postcranial anatomy of Edmontosaurus regalis (Hadrosauridae) from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation, Alberta, Canada. In D. A. Eberth & D. C. Evans (ed.), Hadrosaurs 208-244 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 13664 | ETE | L. M. Lambe. 1920. The hadrosaur Edmontosaurus from the Upper Cretaceous of Alberta. Canada Geological Survey Memoirs, Geological Series 120(102):1-79 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 12319 | ETE | R. S. Lull and N. E. Wright. 1942. Hadrosaurian dinosaurs of North America. Geological Society of America Special Paper 40:1-242 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 62727 | L. S. Russell. 1966. Dinosaur hunting in western Canada. Royal Ontario Museum, Life Sciences Contribution 70:1-37 [M. Carrano/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] |