Also known as Sternberg Quarry 58, NMC, G.S.C.35, Little Sandhill Creek

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.8° N, 111.5° W: paleocoordinates 58.1° N, 76.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• from 7 m below base of Dinosaur Park Formation; "The occurrence is significant because it is the stratigraphically lowest documented hadrosaur skeleton that can be identified to the genus-level, and it is the only hadrosaur known from the Oldman Formation at the Park." [Eberth & Evans, 2011]

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected by C. M. Sternberg in 1936; reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: C. M. Sternberg. 1950. Notes and annotated list of quarries. Map 969A. Steveville, west of fourth meridian, Alberta. Canada Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59041: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 07.03.2006, edited by Matthew Carrano

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