RTMP Quarry 16, Happy Jack Ferry: Late/Upper Campanian, Canada
collected by C. H. Sternberg & L. S. Sternberg 1913, 1935
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Ceratopsidae
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Styracosaurus albertensis n. gen., n. sp.
Lambe 1913
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1 individual | |||||||||
| NMC 344 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 50.7° North, 111.4° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 58.0° North, 75.9° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Altitude: | 709 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: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Belly River | Formation: | Dinosaur Park | ||
| Local section: | Dinosaur Park | Local bed: | 42 m | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: originally assigned to the Oldman Fm.; stratigraphic position estimated from Fig. 4 in ref 26153 | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray argillaceous,carbonaceous sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "a thick layer of light grey clayey sandstone" w/plant matter | |
| Environment: | "channel" |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,soft parts |
| 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 (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | GSC | ||
| Collectors: | C. H. Sternberg & L. S. Sternberg | Collection dates: | 1913, 1935 |
| Collection method comments: skull collected in 1913 by C. H. Sternberg; postcrania collected in 1935 by L. Sternberg | |||
Metadata
| Also known as: | NMC, Sternberg Quarry 106, Styracosaurus type, G.S.C.28 | ||
| Database number: | 52487 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-08-09 06:53:34 | Last modified: | 2021-10-05 14:24:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-08-09 06:53:34 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 17544. | ETE | L. M. Lambe. 1913. A new genus and species of Ceratopsia from the Belly River Formation of Alberta. The Ottawa Naturalist 27(9):109-116 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 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] |
| 53968 | C. W. Gilmore. 1921. A new horned dinosaur from Canada. The Styracosaurus albertensis with a six-foot skull bristling with horns. Scientific American Monthly 3(1):7-8 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 78296 | R. B. Holmes, M. J. Ryan, and A. M. Murray. 2006. Photographic atlas of the postcranial skeleton of the type specimen of Styracosaurus albertensis with additional isolated cranial elements from Alberta. Syllogeus 75:1-75 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 46376 | R. B. Holmes and M. J. Ryan. 2013. The postcranial skeleton of Styracosaurus albertensis. Kirtlandia 58:5-37 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 62887 | L. M. Lambe. 1914. Report of the vertebrate palaeontologist. Summary Report of the Geologcal Survey Department of Mines for the Calendar Year 1913 1359:293-299 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 12314 | ETE | R. S. Lull. 1933. A revision of the Ceratopsia or horned dinosaurs. Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 3(3):1-175 [M. Carrano/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] | |
| 26153 | ETE | M. J. Ryan, R. Holmes, and A. P. Russell. 2007. A revision of the late Campanian centrosaurine ceratopsid genus Styracosaurus from the Western Interior of North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(4):944-962 [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] | |
| 14117 | ETE | C. H. Sternberg. 1917. Five years' explorations in the fossil beds of Alberta. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 28:205-211 [M. Carrano/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] |