Scabby Butte, Site 2 (Cretaceous to of Canada)

Also known as NMC Locality P-5510

Where: Alberta, Canada (49.9° N, 113.0° W: paleocoordinates 57.8° N, 80.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: St. Mary River Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: dry floodplain; claystone and poorly lithified, tabular, white sandstone

• "a dry flood plain or of long-abandoned channel floor"
• "Bones at Site 2 lie upon a soft white sandstone, characterized by thin tabular cross-bedding, which is truncated at the interface with the overlying bone-bearing claystone."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collected by L. S. Russell, W. Langston in 1955, 1957; reposited in the NMC

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: L. S. Russell. 1966. Dinosaur hunting in western Canada. Royal Ontario Museum, Life Sciences Contribution 70:1-37 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 52072: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 19.07.2005, edited by John Alroy

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Two ceratopsian frills were found and are believed to belong to Pachyrhinosaurus.
unclassified
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Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Pachyrhinosaurus canadensis1 Sternberg 1950 ceratopsid
NMC 9485, 9583, 9594, 9600, 9610, 9719, 9721-22, 10629-33, 10635-42, 10643, 10646, 10663-67
Anchiceratops sp.1 Brown 1914 ceratopsid
 Theropoda - Troodontidae
Troodon sp.1 Leidy 1856 maniraptoran
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
Tyrannosauridae indet.1 Osborn 1906 tyrannosaurid
 Choristodera -
Champsosaurus sp.1 Cope 1876 choristodere
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteus sp.1 Agassiz 1843 gar
Trifossapollenites
  -
 Anthophyta -
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Angiospermae
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
Momipites sp.2 Wodehouse 1933
 Buxales - Buxaceae
 Buxales -
Polypodiidites sp.2 PotoniƩ 1966
 Mesangiosperms - Liliaceae
Liliacidites sp.2 Couper 1953
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Glyptostrobus sp.2 Endlicher 1847 Chinese swamp cypress
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Pinaceae
Picea sp.2 Dietrich 1824 spruce
Lycopodiopsida
 Lycopodiales - Lycopodiaceae
Lycopodiumsporites sp.2 Delcourt and Sprumont 1955 clubmoss
Polypodiopsida
 Schizaeales - Polypodiidae
Cicatricosisporites sp.2 Potonie and Gelletich 1933