right bank, Sand Creek (125 ft level) [AMNH]: Campanian, Canada
collected by Brown & Kaisen 1914
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Ornithomimidae
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Struthiomimus altus
(Lambe 1902)
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1 individual | |||||||||
| AMNH 5339; field no. 4 (6 measurements) | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Ankylosauridae
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Euoplocephalus sp.
Lambe 1910
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Coombs 1978 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| AMNH 5337, partial skeleton | ||||||||||
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= Euoplocephalus tutus
Lambe 1902
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Arbour and Currie 2013 | |||||||||
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= Platypelta coombsi n. gen., n. sp.
Penkalski 2018
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Penkalski 2018 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 50.6° North, 111.6° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 57.8° North, 75.5° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| Key time interval: | Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Belly River | Formation: | Oldman |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | excellent |
| Articulated whole bodies: | all |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | AMNH | ||
| Collectors: | Brown & Kaisen | Collection dates: | 1914 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Little Sandhill Creek | ||
| Database number: | 52476 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-08-08 12:30:32 | Last modified: | 2018-01-19 11:19:29 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-08-08 12:30:32 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 10410. | D. A. Russell. 1972. Ostrich dinosaurs from the late Cretaceous of western Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 9:375-402 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 46759 | V. M. Arbour and P. J. Currie. 2013. Euoplocephalus tutus and the diversity of ankylosaurid dinosaurs in the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada, and Montana, USA. PLoS ONE 8(5):e62421:1.-39 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano] | |
| 60140 | L. P. A. Claessens and M. A. Loewen. 2016. A redescription of Ornithomimus velox Marsh, 1890 (Dinosauria, Theropoda). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(1):e1034593:1-15 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 17480 | ETE | W. P. Coombs. 1978. The families of the ornithischian dinosaur order Ankylosauria. Palaeontology 21(1):143-170 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 13165 | ETE | W. D. Matthew and B. Brown. 1922. The family Deinodontidae, with notice of a new genus from the Cretaceous of Alberta. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 46(6):367-385 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 66472 | P. Penkalski. 2018. Revised systematics of the armoured dinosaur Euoplocephalus and its allies. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 287(3):261-306 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen] | |
| 62727 | L. S. Russell. 1966. Dinosaur hunting in western Canada. Royal Ontario Museum, Life Sciences Contribution 70:1-37 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |