Scabby Butte, Site 6: Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Canada
collected by L. S. Russell, W. Langston 1955, 1957
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Aspideretes sp.
Hay 1904
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Langston 1975 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| NMC 10659 | ||||||||||
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= Trionychinae indet.
Gray 1825
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Alroy 2007 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Baenidae
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Boremys sp.
Lambe 1906
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Langston 1975 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
| NMC 10660, NMC 10658 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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Champsosaurus sp.
Cope 1876
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Langston 1975 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
| NMC 10654. NMC 10680 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Ceratopsidae
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Pachyrhinosaurus canadensis
Sternberg 1950
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Langston 1975 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
| NMC 21863, NMC 21864, NMC 10669 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 49.9° North, 113.0° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 57.8° North, 80.0° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | St. Mary River |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | random |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | poor |
| Abundance in sediment: | few |
| Articulated whole bodies: | none |
| Associated major elements: | none |
| Disassociated major elements: | all |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | NMC | ||
| Collectors: | L. S. Russell, W. Langston | Collection dates: | 1955, 1957 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | NMC Locality P-5801 | ||
| Database number: | 52249 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, J. Alroy | Enterer: | K. Maguire, J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-08-02 12:13:37 | Last modified: | 2021-05-07 13:28:04 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-08-02 12:13:37 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 62727. | L. S. Russell. 1966. Dinosaur hunting in western Canada. Royal Ontario Museum, Life Sciences Contribution 70:1-37 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 19636 | J. Alroy. 2007. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates and so forth. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 32668 | ETE | P. J. Currie, W. Langston, and D. H. Tanke. 2008. A new species of Pachyrhinosaurus (Dinosauria, Ceratopsidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada. In P. J. Currie, W. Langston, & D. H. Tanke (eds.), in A New Horned Dinosaur from an Upper Cretaceous Bone Bed in Alberta 1-108 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 13943 | ETE | W. Langston. 1975. The ceratopsian dinosaurs and associated lower vertebrates from the St. Mary River Formation (Maestrichtian) at Scabby Butte, southern Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 12:1576-1608 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano] |
| 2208 | W. Langston. 1976. A Late Cretaceous vertebrate fauna from the St. Mary River Formation in western Canada. In C. S. Churcher (ed.), Athlon: Essays on Palaeontology in Honour of Loris Shano Russell 114-133 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano] | |
| 76818 | J. LeBlanc. 2000. Macrofossils. Their Localities in Alberta, Canada (with Notes on Adjacent Areas of British Columbia) 1-87 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |