RTMP Quarry 58, Steveville: Late/Upper Campanian, Canada
collected by G. F. Sternberg 1920-1921
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes
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Osteichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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Russell 1932 | |||||||||
associated "fish-bones" | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Troodon validus
(Lambe 1902)
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1 individual | |||||||||
corrected as Stegoceras validum | ||||||||||
UA 2 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
Coordinates: | 50.8° North, 111.6° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 58.1° North, 76.1° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Altitude: | 668 meters | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
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
Geological group: | Belly River | Formation: | Dinosaur Park | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: originally assigned to the Oldman Fm. and the "Pale" beds of the Belly River Series |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "cross stratification" carbonaceous sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "sandstone, plant matter" | |
Environment: | channel lag |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Associated major elements: | all |
Fragmentation: | occasional |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Collectors: | G. F. Sternberg | Collection dates: | 1920-1921 |
Metadata
Also known as: | Sternberg Quarry 3, U.A.2, UA2 | ||
Database number: | 53976 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-09-20 11:37:33 | Last modified: | 2023-05-12 14:18:02 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-09-20 11:37:33 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
14571. | ETE | C. W. Gilmore. 1924. On Troodon validus, an orthopodous dinosaur from the Belly River Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada. Department of Geology, University of Alberta Bulletin 1:1-43 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
54196 | Anonymous. 1922. Fossil vertebrates. Natural History 22:92 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
12773 | ETE | B. Brown and E. M. Schlaikjer. 1943. A study of the troödont dinosaurs with the description of a new genus and four new species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 82(5):115-150 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
16964 | ETE | P. J. Currie. 2005. History of research. In P. J. Currie and E. B. Koppelhus (eds.), Dinosaur Provincial Park: A Spectacular Ancient Ecosystem Revealed. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 3-33 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
15355 | ETE | J. Danis. 1986. Quarries of Dinosaur Provincial Park. In B. G. Naylor (ed.), Field Trip Guidebook to Dinosaur Provincial Park, 2 June 1986. Dinosaur Systematics Symposium, Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Drumheller, Alberta 43-51 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
19374 | ETE | P. Dodson. 1971. Sedimentology and taphonomy of the Oldman Formation (Campanian), Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta (Canada). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 10:21-74 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
14581 | ETE | C. W. Gilmore. 1936. Remarks on a skull cap of the genus Troödon. Annals of Carnegie Museum 25:109-112 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
62453 | L. S. Russell. 1932. On the occurrence and relationships of the dinosaur Troödon. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 10 9:334-337 [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] | |
79092 | R. L. Schott and D. C. Evans. 2017. Cranial variation and systematics of Foraminacephale brevis gen. nov. and the diversity of pachycephalosaurid dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Cerapoda) in the Belly River Group of Alberta, Canada. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Sociietty 179(4):865-906 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
33225 | ETE | C. M. Sternberg. 1950. Notes and annotated list of quarries. Map 969A. Steveville, west of fourth meridian, Alberta. Canada Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |