Knudsen's Coulee (NMC 9950) (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as East of Huxley

Where: Alberta, Canada (51.9° N, 113.0° W: paleocoordinates 59.6° N, 84.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Scollard Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• "upper Edmonton Formation"; now Scollard; 52 m above base (Kneehills Tuff), 4.3 m above Nevis Seam no. 13 and 13 m below Ardley Seam no. 14 - corrected to 34.5 m above base and 10.5 m below Nevis

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; concretionary sandstone

• "concretionary zone in the basal part of a channel sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. Sternberg in 1946; reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: D. A. Russell. 1970. Tyrannosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of western Canada. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Publications in Paleontology 1:1-34 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 11917: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.09.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Reptilia
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
Tyrannosaurus rex1 Osborn 1905 tyrant lizard king
NMC 9554
 Anthophyta -