RTMP Quarry 24, mouth of Berry Creek: Late/Upper Campanian, Canada
collected by B. Brown & G. Olsen 1912
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Trachodontidae indet.
Lydekker 1888
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1 individual | |||||||||
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= ? Saurolophus sp.
Brown 1912
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Brown 1914 | |||||||||
| AMNH 5240 | ||||||||||
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= Corythosaurus casuarius n. gen., n. sp.
Brown 1914
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Brown 1914 | |||||||||
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Trachodontidae indet.
Lydekker 1888
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Brown 1916 | |||||||||
| synonym of Hadrosauridae | ||||||||||
| water-worn bones under tail of AMNH 5240 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Baenidae
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Baenidae indet.
Cope 1882
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Brown 1916 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| AMNH 5241 | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Unionida
- Unionidae
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Unio sp.
Philipsson 1788
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Brown 1916 | |||||||||
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unclassified
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Plantae indet.
Haeckel 1866
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Brown 1916 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 50.8° North, 111.6° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 58.2° North, 76.1° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Altitude: | 650 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 | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 300 ft below top of Bell River "formation" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | siltstone |
| Secondary lithology: | current ripples,"cross stratification",white sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | "channel" |
| Geology comments: "beach"; also "channel" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression,soft parts |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | excellent |
| Articulated whole bodies: | some |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | AMNH | ||
| Collectors: | B. Brown & G. Olsen | Collection dates: | 1912 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | AMNH, Sternberg Quarry 1, Corythosaurus type, Steveville, A.M.1 | ||
| Database number: | 52472 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-08-08 12:22:59 | Last modified: | 2017-09-19 13:07:00 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-08-08 12:22:59 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 58800. | B. Brown. 1913. A new crested dinosaur. The American Museum Journal 13(3):138-144 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 54988 | P. R. Bell. 2014. A revew of hadrosaurid skin impressions. In D. A. Eberth & D. C. Evans (ed.), Hadrosaurs 572-590 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 9646 | B. Brown. 1914. Corythosaurus casuarius, a new crested dinosaur from the Belly River Cretaceous, with provisional classification of the family Trachodontidae. 33(35):559-564 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 63399 | B. Brown. 1914. Cretaceous Eocene correlation in New Mexico, Wyoming, Montana, Alberta. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 25:355-380 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 9597 | B. Brown. 1916. Corythosaurus casuarius: skeleton, musculature and epidermis. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 35(38):709-716 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 63397 | B. Brown. 1919. Hunting big game of other days. National Geographic Magazine 35(4):407-429 [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] |
| 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] |
| 62727 | L. S. Russell. 1966. Dinosaur hunting in western Canada. Royal Ontario Museum, Life Sciences Contribution 70:1-37 [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] |
| 62195 | G. Stucker. 1951. Harvester of the past. Nature Magazine 44(9):467-470 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |