Dinosaur Provincial Park (Oldman Formation) (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.8° N, 110.5° W: paleocoordinates 57.9° N, 74.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Oldman Formation, Judithian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. A. Eberth, P. J. Currie, D. B. Brinkman, M. J. Ryan, D. R. Braman, J. D. Gardner, V. D. Lam, D. N. Spivak, and A. G. Neuman. 2001. Alberta's dinosaurs and other fossil vertebrates: Judith River and Edmonton groups (Campanian-Maastrichtian). In C. L. Hill (ed), Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 61st Annual Meeting, Bozeman. Guidebook for the Field Trips: Mesozoic and Cenozoic Paleontology in the Western Plains and Rocky Mountains, Museum of the Rockies Occasional Paper 3:49-75 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14451: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002, edited by Jonathan Tennant

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Taxonomic list

• apparently a composite of numerous small collections spanning "the upper 20 m" of the formation
additional list for the overlying, 80 m thick "Dinosaur Park Formation" appears to include the Steveville fauna (see)
Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae
Ankylosauridae indet.2 Brown 1908 ankylosaurid
TMP 1979.14.164 (precise locality data unknown); 1991.36.321, fragmentary first cervical ring; 1983.36.120, tail club; 1993.36.421, tail club
 Ornithischia -
Orodrominae indet.3 Brown et al. 2013 ornithopod
Numerous specimens, precise locality details not given
Mammalia
 Multituberculata - Cimolomyidae
Cimolomys sp. Marsh 1889 multituberculate
Meniscoessus sp. Cope 1882 multituberculate
 Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae
"Mesodma primaeva" = Filikomys primaevus
"Mesodma primaeva" = Filikomys primaevus Lambe 1902 multituberculate
 Multituberculata - Cimolodontidae
Cimolodon sp. Marsh 1889 multituberculate
 Multituberculata -
Cimexomys sp. Sloan and Van Valen 1965 multituberculate
 Theriamorpha - Gypsonictopidae
Gypsonictops lewisi Sahni 1972 eutherian
 Theriamorpha -
Paranyctoides sternbergi Fox 1979 eutherian
 Cimolesta - Cimolestidae
Cimolestes sp. Marsh 1889 eutherian
 Theriamorpha - Nyctitheriidae
cf. Nyctitheriidae indet. Simpson 1928 placental
 Theriamorpha - Stagodontidae
Eodelphis sp. Matthew 1916 metatherian
 Theriamorpha - Pediomyidae
Pediomyidae indet.1 Simpson 1927 metatherian
 Theriamorpha - Alphadontidae
Alphadon halleyi Sahni 1972 metatherian
Turgidodon russelli Fox 1979 metatherian
Turgidodon praesagus Russell 1952 metatherian