Big Valley Creek, GSC (NMC): Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Canada
collected by G. F. Sternberg 1915
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Dinosauria indet.
(Owen 1842)
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1 individual | |||||||||
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= Cheneosaurus tolmanensis
Lambe 1917
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Lambe 1917 | |||||||||
| synonym of Hypacrosaurus altispinus | ||||||||||
| NMC 2247 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 51.9° North, 112.9° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 59.7° North, 78.6° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Altitude: | 782 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Edmonton |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Associated major elements: | all |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | GSC | ||
| Collectors: | G. F. Sternberg | Collection dates: | 1915 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 60875 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-05-26 12:47:02 | Last modified: | 2017-07-26 11:43:13 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-05-26 12:47:02 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 62881. | L. M. Lambe. 1916. Report of the vertebrate palaeontologist. Summary Report of the Geological Survey Department of Mines for the Calendar Year 1915 1616:193-198 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 17548 | ETE | L. M. Lambe. 1917. On Cheneosaurus tolmanensis, a new genus and species of trachodont dinosaur from the Edmonton Cretaceous of Alberta. The Ottawa Naturalist 30(10):117-123 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 12319 | ETE | R. S. Lull and N. E. Wright. 1942. Hadrosaurian dinosaurs of North America. Geological Society of America Special Paper 40:1-242 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |