Eotriceratops type, Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincal Park: Late Maastrichtian, Canada
collected by G. Guthrie 2001-2001
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Ceratopsidae
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Eotriceratops xerinsularis n. gen., n. sp.
Wu et al. 2007
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1 individual | |||||||||
| RTMP 2002.57.7 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 52.0° North, 112.9° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 64.1° North, 68.0° West (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
| Key time interval: | Late Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 72.1 - 66 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Edmonton | Formation: | Horseshoe Canyon | Member: | Carbon |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: located between Carbon & Thompson coal zones (seams 11 & 12); middle of unit 5 within Fm., = upper 20 m of Fm., 13.5 m above base | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lenticular,concretionary,ferruginous,brown,red silty,carbonaceous "shale" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: from near base of a "broadly lenticular (tens of metres wide), dark red-brown, silty, carbonaceous shale that is up to 50 cm thick. Carbonaceous shale is sharp based to erosional, and exhibits patchy, irregular ironstone nodules, and local sulfur staining." | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Associated major elements: | all |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | TMP | ||
| Collectors: | G. Guthrie | Collection dates: | 2001-2001 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | RTMP | ||
| Database number: | 75475 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-10-11 07:10:38 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-10-11 07:10:38 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 25471. | ETE | X.-C. Wu, D. B. Brinkman, D. A. Ebert and D. R. Braman. 2007. A new ceratopsid dinosaur (Ornithischia) from the uppermost Horseshoe Canyon Formation (upper Maastrichtian), Alberta, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 44:1243-1265 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |