Dinosaur Provincial Park (2010 excavation, UALVP): Late/Upper Campanian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta
- Hemiptera
- Cretamyzidae
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Cretamyzidae indet.
Heie 1992
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1 specimen | |||||||||
UALVP 53367 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Prosaurolophus maximus
Brown 1916
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1 specimen | |||||||||
dentary UALVP 53367 | ||||||||||
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: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
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
Formation: | Dinosaur Park | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Uppermost Dinosaur Park Formation (~75Ma), immediately beneath the Lethbridge Coal Zone, |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | poorly lithified muddy "siliciclastic" |
Lithology description: muddy overbank facies that have been interpreted as products of an alluvial-coastal plain undergoing transgression | |
Environment: | "floodplain" |
Geology comments: Muddy overbank facies that have been interpreted as products of an alluvial-coastal plain undergoing transgression |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,amber |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Collection method comments: Repository: University of Alberta Laboratory for Vertebrate Palaeontology (UALVP) |
Metadata
Database number: | 206775 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | paleoentomology,vertebrate |
Created: | 2019-11-29 22:20:22 | Last modified: | 2019-11-29 22:20:22 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-11-29 22:20:22 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
71097. | R. C. McKellar, E. Jones, M. S. Engel, R. Tappert, A. P. Wolfe, K. Muehlenbachs, P. Cockx, E. B. Koppelhus, and P. J. Currie. 2019. A direct association between amber and dinosaur remains provides paleoecological insights. Scientific Reports 9(17916):1-7 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |