RSM site number 28769 ("Site B") (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Grasslands National Park, East Block

Where: Saskatchewan, Canada (50.2° N, 107.4° W: paleocoordinates 56.9° N, 79.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; sandstone

• The site at which RSM P3328.2 was found is located in a fluvial interval of the depositional cycle, within a channel fill largely composed of cross-bedded sandstones, typical of the sand-dominated facies recognized from the Frenchman Formation

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. B. Brinkman, C. Libke, R. C. McKellar, S. Gasilov, and C. M. Somers. 2023. A new pan-kinosternid, Leiochelys tokaryki, gen. et sp. nov., from the late Maastrichtian Frenchman formation, Saskatchewan Canada. The Anatomical Record 306(6):1481-1500 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 225845: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 04.06.2022, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudines - Kinosternoidea
Leiochelys tokaryki n. gen. n. sp.
Leiochelys tokaryki n. gen. n. sp. Brinkman et al. 2023 mud turtle
RSM P3328.2 - holotype (articulated skeleton)
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Triceratops sp.
Triceratops sp. Marsh 1889 ceratopsid
"bones of a large, disarticulated Triceratops"
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
Tyrannosaurus sp.
Tyrannosaurus sp. Osborn 1905 tyrant lizard
"isolated Tyrannosaurus caudal vertebra"