RTMP Quarry 108, Little Sandhill Creek: Late/Upper Campanian, Canada
collected by C. M. Sternberg 1919

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
Lambeosaurus magnicristatum n. sp. Sternberg 1935
1 individual
corrected as Lambeosaurus magnicristatus
NMC/GSC 8705 (1 measurement)
Reptilia - Ankylosauridae
Ankylosauridae indet. Brown 1908
Arbour and Currie 2013
CMN 135, tail club knob
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Alberta
Coordinates: 50.7° North, 111.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:58.1° North, 76.1° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:706 meters
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:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Belly River Formation:Dinosaur Park
Local section:Dinosaur Park Local bed:47 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 10 feet below Bearpaw Shale; originally assigned to the Oldman Fm.; high within formation, 47 m above contact with Oldman Fm.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:channel lag
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:variable
Articulated whole bodies:all
Fragmentation:frequent
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:GSC
Collectors:C. M. Sternberg Collection dates:1919
Metadata
Also known as:L. magnicristatus type, NMC, Sternberg Quarry 46, G.S.C.38
Database number:51863
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, J. Tennant
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-06-28 17:24:21 Last modified:2020-02-10 15:38:51
Access level:the public Released:2005-06-28 17:24:21
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
12118.ETE C. M. Sternberg. 1935. Hooded hadrosaurs of the Belly River Series of the Upper Cretaceous. Canada Department of Mines Bulletin (Geological Series) 77(52):1-37 [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]
16964ETE P. J. Currie. 2005. History of research. In P. J. Currie and E. B. Koppelhus (eds.), Dinosaur Provincial Park: A Spectacular Ancient Ecosystem Revealed. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 3-33 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
15355ETE J. Danis. 1986. Quarries of Dinosaur Provincial Park. In B. G. Naylor (ed.), Field Trip Guidebook to Dinosaur Provincial Park, 2 June 1986. Dinosaur Systematics Symposium, Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Drumheller, Alberta 43-51 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
19374ETE P. Dodson. 1971. Sedimentology and taphonomy of the Oldman Formation (Campanian), Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta (Canada). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 10:21-74 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
58626 D. Evans and R. R. Reisz. 2004. Anatomy of Lambeosaurus magnicristatus (Ornithischia: Hadrosauridae). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(3, suppl.):55A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
24881ETE D. C. Evans and R. R. Reisz. 2007. Anatomy and relationships of Lambeosaurus magnicristatus, a crested hadrosaurid dinosaur (Ornithischia) from the Dinosaur Park Formation, Alberta. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(2):373-393 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
12319ETE 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]
33225ETE C. M. Sternberg. 1950. Notes and annotated list of quarries. Map 969A. Steveville, west of fourth meridian, Alberta. Canada Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]