Sand Creek [AMNH] (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.7° N, 111.5° W: paleocoordinates 58.1° N, 76.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Dinosaur Park Formation (Belly River Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, gray, blue sandstone

• "chocolate-brown bone and the clean, blue-grey sandstone matrix"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. H. Sternberg in 1917; reposited in the AMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 191255: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.01.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Chasmosaurus russelli
Chasmosaurus russelli Sternberg 1940 ceratopsid
AMNH 5656, posterior frill