RTMP BB 78 (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Bonebed 78, DPP

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.8° 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)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by P. J. Currie in 1986; reposited in the TMP

Primary reference: D. B. Brinkman, M. J. Ryan, and D. A. Eberth. 1998. The paleogeographic and stratigraphic distribution of ceratopsids (Ornithischia) in the Upper Judith River Group of western Canada. Palaios 13:160-169 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67893: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.12.2006, edited by Roger Benson and Patricia Holroyd

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Esociformes - Esocidae
Estesesox foxi2 Wilson et al. 1992
Reptilia
 Squamata -
Scincomorpha indet.1 squamates
RTMP 85.36.275 (partial left dentary)
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. theropod
"large theropod"
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Richardoestesia sp. Currie et al. 1990 maniraptoran
Saurornitholestes sp. Sues 1978 maniraptoran
Dromaeosaurus sp. Matthew and Brown 1922 maniraptoran
 Theropoda - Troodontidae
Troodon sp. Leidy 1856 maniraptoran
Aves
  -
? Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird
Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Paronychodon sp. Cope 1876 maniraptoran
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Centrosaurus sp. Lambe 1905 ceratopsid
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
 Ornithischia -