Bow Island Ferry (NMC): Middle Campanian, Canada
collected by E. J. Whittaker 1923

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Pachycephalosauridae
Troodon sp. Leidy 1856
1 specimen
orig. ID P. S. Warren to L.S. Russell
    = Troodon validus Lambe 1902
Brown and Schlaikjer 1943
NMC 8818
    = Stegoceras lambei n. sp. Sternberg 1945
Sternberg 1945
recombined as Colepiocephale lambei
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae
Ischyrhiza mira Leidy 1856
Storer and Johnson 1974
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Alberta
Coordinates: 50.0° North, 111.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:57.3° North, 76.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Middle Campanian
Age range of interval:83.50000 - 70.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Belly River Formation:Foremost
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 200-300 ft below top of formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Disassociated major elements:all
Fragmentation:frequent
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:GSC
Collectors:E. J. Whittaker Collection dates:1923
Metadata
Also known as:S. lambei type, South Saskatchewan River
Database number:64654
Authorizer:M. Carrano, M. Uhen Enterer:M. Carrano, M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-09-11 13:50:53 Last modified:2023-04-26 09:15:33
Access level:the public Released:2006-09-11 13:50:53
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

62453. L. S. Russell. 1932. On the occurrence and relationships of the dinosaur Troödon. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 10 9:334-337 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

12773ETE B. Brown and E. M. Schlaikjer. 1943. A study of the troödont dinosaurs with the description of a new genus and four new species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 82(5):115-150 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
31577ETE R. K. Schott, D. C. Evans, T. E. Williamson, T. D. Carr, and M. B. Goodwin. 2009. The anatomy and systematics of Colepiocephale lambei (Dinosauria: Pachycephalosauridae). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(3):771-786 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
79092 R. L. Schott and D. C. Evans. 2017. Cranial variation and systematics of Foraminacephale brevis gen. nov. and the diversity of pachycephalosaurid dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Cerapoda) in the Belly River Group of Alberta, Canada. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Sociietty 179(4):865-906 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
12112ETE C. M. Sternberg. 1945. Pachycephalosauridae proposed for dome-headed dinosaurs, Stegoceras lambei, n. sp., described. Journal of Paleontology 19(5):534-538 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
30788 J. E. Storer and H. Johnson. 1974. Ischyrhiza (Chondrichthyes: Pristidae) from the Upper Cretaceous Foremost Formation (Campanian) of Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Science 11:712-715 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Alroy]
14453ETE R. M. Sullivan. 2003. Revision of the dinosaur Stegoceras Lambe (Ornithischia, Pachycephalosauridae). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(1):181-207 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]