John Neills Ranch (75 ft level) [ROM]: Late/Upper Campanian, Canada
collected by G. Lindblad 1923

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Caenagnathidae
Ornithomimidae indet. Marsh 1890
1 individual
ROM field no. 1923-1 (= ROM 43250)
    = Chirostenotes pergracilis Gilmore 1924
Sues 1997
ROM 43250
    = Epichirostenotes curriei n. gen., n. sp. Sullivan et al. 2011
Sullivan et al. 2011
unclassified
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
Sues 1997
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Alberta
Coordinates: 51.6° North, 112.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:59.1° North, 77.0° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
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:Edmonton Formation:Horseshoe Canyon Member:Drumheller
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "member A" according to Lindblad's field notes
For revised age stratigraphy of the Horseshoe Canyon Formation, see Eberth and Braman 2012 and Eberth et al. 2020
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,intraclastic,brown,gray sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "a light olive gray, in places yellowish-brown, fine-grained sandstone, which contains abundant claystone galls and pieces of coalifed wood and other plant debris."
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Fragmentation:occasional
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:mechanical,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:ROM
Collectors:G. Lindblad Collection dates:12 Jun 1923
Metadata
Database number:138968
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-02-05 04:09:46 Last modified:2022-03-29 03:49:34
Access level:the public Released:2013-02-05 04:09:46
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
10410. D. A. Russell. 1972. Ostrich dinosaurs from the late Cretaceous of western Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 9:375-402 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

77956 P. J. Currie and E. B. Koppelhus. 2015. The significance of the theropod collections of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology to our understanding of Late Cretaceous theropod diversity. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 52(8):620-629 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
79485 M. M. Rhodes, G. F. Funston, and P. J. Currie. 2020. New material reveals the pelvic morphology of Caenagnathidae (Theropoda, Oviraptorosauria). Cretaceous Research 114:104521:1-20 [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]
44658 H.-D. Sues. 1997. On Chirostenotes, a Late Cretaceous oviraptorosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from western North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17(4):698-716 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
44515 R. M. Sullivan, S. E. Jasinski, and M. P. A. Van Tomme. 2011. A new caenagnathid Ojoraptorsaurus boerei, n. gen., n. sp. (Dinosauria, Oviraptorosauria), from the Upper Cretaceous Ojo Alamo Formation (Naashoibito Member), San Juan Basin, New Mexico. In R. M. Sullivan, S. G. Lucas & J. A. Spielmann (eds.), Fossil Record 3. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 418-428 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
16613ETE D. J. Varricchio. 2001. Late Cretaceous oviraptorosaur (Theropoda) dinosaurs from Montana. D. H. Tanke and K. Carpenter (eds.), Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, Indiana University Press, Bloomington 42-57 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]