Tolman Ferry, Red Deer River (AMNH): Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Canada
collected by B. Brown & P. Kaisen 1911
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Hadrosauridae indet.
Cope 1869
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2 individuals | |||||||||
| "Skeleton of a new Duck-billed Dinosaur" (6 measurements) | ||||||||||
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= Saurolophus osborni n. gen., n. sp.
Brown 1912
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Brown 1913 | |||||||||
| AMNH 5220, 5221 | ||||||||||
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Polypodiopsida
- Equisetales
- Equisetaceae
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Equisetum sp.
Linnaeus 1753
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Brown 1913 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 51.8° North, 113.0° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 59.5° North, 84.6° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| 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 | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 500 feet below top of beds | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | desiccation cracks,wave ripples sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "ripple-marked sandstone" | |
| Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression,trace,soft parts |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | excellent |
| Articulated whole bodies: | some |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | AMNH | ||
| Collectors: | B. Brown & P. Kaisen | Collection dates: | 1911 |
| Taxonomic list comments:sandstone preserves "worm tracks and impressions of horsetails or scouring rushes (Equisetum)" | |||
Metadata
| Also known as: | Saurolophus type | ||
| Database number: | 64430 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-09-08 14:43:45 | Last modified: | 2022-03-29 04:08:48 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-09-08 14:43:45 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 54104. | H. F. Osborn. 1912. Forty-Third Annual Report of the American Museum of Natural History for the Year 1911. Department of Vertebrate Palaeontology 102-104 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 77258 | P. R. Bell. 2012. Standardized terminology and potential taxonomic utility for hadrosaurid skin impressions: a case study for Saurolophus from Canada and Mongolia. PLoS One 7(2):e31295:1-12 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 54988 | P. R. Bell. 2014. A revew of hadrosaurid skin impressions. In D. A. Eberth & D. C. Evans (ed.), Hadrosaurs 572-590 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 18614 | ETE | B. Brown. 1913. The skeleton of Saurolophus, a crested duck-billed dinosaur from the Edmonton Cretaceous. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 32(19):387-393 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 58800 | B. Brown. 1913. A new crested dinosaur. The American Museum Journal 13(3):138-144 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 63399 | B. Brown. 1914. Cretaceous Eocene correlation in New Mexico, Wyoming, Montana, Alberta. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 25:355-380 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 63397 | B. Brown. 1919. Hunting big game of other days. National Geographic Magazine 35(4):407-429 [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] |
| 51985 | W. D. Matthew. 1912. New dinosaurs for the American Museum. The American Museum Journal 12:209 [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] |