Also known as Albertosaurus Quarry, Big Valley Creek, ABB, RTMP L2204
Where: Alberta, Canada (52.0° N, 112.9° W: paleocoordinates 59.7° N, 84.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Tolman Member (Horseshoe Canyon Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• from transition between Units 4 and 5, HCF "B", should be top of Tolman Mb.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coarse channel fill; massive, lenticular, fine-grained, ferruginous, intraclastic, silty sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: soft parts
Collected by B. Brown & Kaisen, P. Currie in 1910, 1997-2005; reposited in the AMNH, TMP
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical, sieve,
Primary reference: B. Brown. 1914. Cretaceous Eocene correlation in New Mexico, Wyoming, Montana, Alberta. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 25:355-380 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 55363: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 12.10.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano and Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Albertonykus borealis n. gen. n. sp.4
Albertonykus borealis n. gen. n. sp.4 Longrich and Currie 2009 Alberta claw TMP 2001.45.8, 12, 31, 51-52, 61, 85-86, 91, 97-98
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cf. Troodon sp.3 Leidy 1856 maniraptoran TMP 2003.45.58, 2000.45.10, 2000.45.24, 2000.45.41, 2000.45.90, 2000.45.91, 2001.45.81, 2001.45.81, 2002.45.48, 2003.45.57
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Richardoestesia cf. gilmorei3 Currie et al. 1990 maniraptoran TMP 2000.45.80, 2001.45.82, 2002.45.49, 2002.45.53
Atrociraptor marshalli2 Currie and Varricchio 2004 maniraptoran TMP 1999.050.0117, 2003.45.52, 2000.45.35, 2000.45.203, 2003.45.49
Dromaeosaurinae indet.2 Matthew and Brown 1922 maniraptoran TMP 1999.050.0116, 1998.063.0032, 1998.63.071, 1998.64.017, 2000.45.040, 2000.45.082, 2000.45.102, 2001.45.083, 2002.45.050, 2003.45.82, 2003.45.102, 2003.45.83, 2003.45.50, 2003.45.60
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Albertosaurus sarcophagus1 Osborn 1905 Alberta lizard AMNH 5218, 5226-5229, 5231-5234; many TMP specimens
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Horseshoeichthys armaserratus n. gen. n. sp.5
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