Little Diablo's Hill, Devil's Coulee (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Diabloes Hill

Where: Alberta, Canada (49.3° N, 112.2° W: paleocoordinates 56.8° N, 77.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Found in the uppermost 100 m of the 650 m thick formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, green mudstone

• "greenish-grey mudstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1987, 1990, 1995; reposited in the TMP

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

Primary reference: J. R. Horner and P. J. Currie. 1994. Embryonic and neonatal morphology and ontogeny of a new species of Hypacrosaurus (Ornithischia, Lambeosauridae) from Montana and Alberta. In K. Carpenter, K. F. Hirsch, and J. R. Horner (eds.), Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 312-336 [A. Behrensmeyer/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 53049: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 01.09.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano and Albert Garcia Selles

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Richardoestesia sp.2 Currie et al. 1990 maniraptoran
TMP 1989.079.0062
Richardoestesia isosceles1 Sankey 2001 maniraptoran
TMP 1990.079.0031
Saurornitholestes langstoni1 Sues 1978 maniraptoran
TMP 1987.079.0090, 1995.092.0016, 27, 28
 Theropoda -
Tristraguloolithus cracioides4 Zelenitsky et al. 1996 theropod
TMP 94.157.55A–94.157.55E
Dispersituberoolithus exilis n. gen. n. sp.4 Zelenitsky et al. 1996 theropod
TMP 94.157.62, 94.157.58A, 94.157.58B, 94.157.58D, 94.157.58E
 Theropoda - Elongatoolithidae
Porituberoolithus warnerensis n. gen. n. sp.4 Zelenitsky et al. 1996 theropod
TMP 94.157.60, 94.257.38B–94.157.38K
Continuoolithus canadensis n. gen. n. sp.4 Zelenitsky et al. 1996 theropod
TMP 94.157.61, 94.157.10A, 94.157.1GB, 94.157.10E–94.I57.10K, 94.157.11A–94.157.11D
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
Nodosauridae indet.2 Marsh 1890 ankylosaur
TMP 1996.149.0021, tooth
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hypacrosaurus stebingeri Horner and Currie 1994 lambeosaurine
eggs, nests, & skeletons, TMP 1987.079.0227
  - Prismatoolithidae
Prismatoolithus levis3 Zelenitsky and Hills 1996 dinosaur
TMP 94.157.5