mouth of Tail Creek: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Canada
collected by B. Brown

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
Trachodon sp. Leidy 1856
2 specimens
nomen dubium belonging to Hadrosauridae
humerus, vertebra; #3
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Alberta
Coordinates: 52.3° North, 113.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:60.0° North, 84.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Late/Upper Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Edmonton Formation:Scollard
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "highest level in the Edmonton beds in which dinosaur bones were found, approximately 100 feet below the big coal sea that marks the top of the formation"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Associated major elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:AMNH
Collectors:B. Brown
Metadata
Also known as:Red Deer River
Database number:188840
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2017-09-19 13:49:39 Last modified:2021-03-01 10:04:45
Access level:the public Released:2017-09-19 13:49:39
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]