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
Cretamyzidae indet. Heie 1992
1 specimen
UALVP 53367
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
Prosaurolophus maximus Brown 1916
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]