Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (64.6° N, 125.8° W: paleocoordinates 74.0° N, 88.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Summit Creek Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• Position of Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary has not been precisely determined palynologically.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Sweet in 1983; reposited in the GSC
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ),
Primary reference: D. A. Russell. 1984. A check list of the families and genera of North American dinosaurs. Syllogeus 53:1-35 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 52893: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 25.08.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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