Cowley (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Crowsnest Pass

Where: Alberta, Canada (49.6° N, 114.0° W: paleocoordinates 57.6° N, 87.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Willow Creek Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Miyashita et al. 2010 suggest that TMP 82.11.1 comes from the Maastrichtian Wlllow Creek Fm. instead

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by P. J. Currie

Primary reference: K. Carpenter and K. Alf. 1994. Global distribution of dinosaur eggs, nests, and babies. In K. Carpenter, K. F. Hirsch, and J. R. Horner (eds.), Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 13-30 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64791: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.09.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Leptoceratopsidae
Leptoceratopsidae indet. Nopcsa 1923 leptoceratopsid
TMP 1982.011.0001; orig. cf. Montanoceratops (Ryan & Currie 1988)
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
baby bones