locality 6, Swan Hills (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (54.9° N, 115.5° W: paleocoordinates 62.9° N, 85.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "Upper Edmonton"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; poorly lithified, ferruginous, volcaniclastic, brown, gray sandstone

• "Brown and grey-brown soft bentonitic sandstone with ironstone"

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by L. Russell in 1965

Primary reference: L. S. Russell. 1967. Palaeontology of the Swan Hills area, north-central Alberta. Life Science Contribution, Royal Ontario Museum 71:1-31 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 46090: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 03.01.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
"Deinodontidae indet." = Tyrannosauridae
"Deinodontidae indet." = Tyrannosauridae Osborn 1906 tyrannosaurid