RTMP BB 55: Middle Campanian, Canada
collected by M. Hirsch 1985
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Leptoceratopsidae
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Protoceratopsidae indet.
Granger and Gregory 1923
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| TMP 95.12.6 | ||||||||||
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= cf. Leptoceratops sp.
Brown 1914
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Ryan and Currie 1998 | |||||||||
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= Unescoceratops koppelhusae n. gen., n. sp.
Ryan et al. 2012
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Ryan et al. 2012 | |||||||||
| 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: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| Key time interval: | Middle Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.6 - 72.1 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Belly River | Formation: | Dinosaur Park | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: approx. 40 m above the contact with the Oldman Formation, middle of Dinosaur Park Fm. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "cross stratification" sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "trough crossed-stratified sandstones" | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | -bonebed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | TMP | ||
| Collectors: | M. Hirsch | Collection dates: | 13 July 1985 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Bonebed 55 | ||
| Database number: | 60173 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | K. Maguire, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-05-04 12:41:53 | Last modified: | 2023-08-21 13:06:52 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-05-04 12:41:53 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 85697. | M. J. Ryan and P. J. Currie. 1996. FIrst report of Protoceratopsidae (Neoceratopsia) from the late Campanian Judith River Group, Alberta, Canada. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16(3, suppl.):61A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 17323 | ETE | M. J. Ryan and P. J. Currie. 1998. First report of protoceratopsians (Neoceratopsia) from the Late Cretaceous Judith River Group, Alberta Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 35:820-826 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano] |
| 40783 | M. J. Ryan, D. C. Evans, P. J. Currie, C. M. Brown, and D. Brinkman. 2012. New leptoceratopsids from the Upper Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada. Cretaceous Research 35(1):69-80 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |