RTMP Quarry 86, Little Sandhill Creek (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Sternberg Quarry 82, NMC, G.S.C.31, Red Deer River

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.7° N, 111.5° W: paleocoordinates 58.1° N, 76.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• originally assigned to the Oldman Fm., actually from middle of Dinosaur Park Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; pebbly, argillaceous sandstone

• "sandstone, clay pebbles"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. H. Sternberg in 1914; reposited in the NMC

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: L. M. Lambe. 1915. Report of the vertebrate palaeontologist. Summary report of the Geological Survey Department of Mines for the Calendar Year 1914 1503:116-121 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59021: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 06.03.2006, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Prosaurolophus maximus Brown 1916 hadrosaurine
CMN 2277