Burmis, Crow's Nest Line (NMC 9483): Campanian, Canada
collected by C. H. Crickmay 1923

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Laosaurus minimus n. sp. Gilmore 1924
1 individual
nomen dubium belonging to Ornithopoda
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Alberta
Coordinates: 49.6° North, 114.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:57.5° North, 79.1° 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:Campanian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Belly River Formation:Allison
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: lower part of Allison Formation, originally thought to be from Blairmore Formation (Lower Cretaceous)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Associated major elements:all
Fragmentation:occasional
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:NMC
Collectors:C. H. Crickmay Collection dates:1923
Collection method comments: collected from rock cut in 1923 by C. H. Crickmay, part of GSC party under M. Y. Williams
Metadata
Also known as:Laosaurus minimus type site
Database number:47194
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-02-17 14:43:34 Last modified:2017-02-02 16:27:28
Access level:the public Released:2005-02-17 14:43:34
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

14573.ETE C. W. Gilmore. 1924. A new species of Laosaurus, an ornithischian dinosaur from the Cretaceus of Alberta. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, section 4, series 3 18:1-6 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

13678ETE J. A. Allan and R. L. Rutherford. 1932. The stratigraphical horizon of Laosaurus minimus, Gilmore. The American Journal of Science, series 5 24(141):225-227 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
12619ETE P. M. Galton. 1973. Redescription of the skull and mandible of Parksosaurus from the Late Cretaceous with comments on the family Hypsilophodontidae (Ornithischia). Life Sciences Contribution, Royal Ontario Museum 89:1-21 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
12780ETE P. M. Galton. 1983. The cranial anatomy of Dryosaurus, a hypsilophodontid dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic of North America and East Africa, with a review of hypsilophodontids from the Upper Jurassic of North America. Geologica et Palaeontologica 17:207-243 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
17297ETE O. Kuhn. 1964. Fossilium Catalogus. I: Animalia. Pars 105. Ornithischia (Supplementum I) 1-80 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
16684ETE L. S. Russell. 1949. The relationships of the Alberta Cretaceous dinosaur "Laosaurus" minimus Gilmore. Journal of Paleontology 23(5):518-520 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
23838ETE H.-D. Sues and D. B. Norman. 1990. Hypsilophodontidae, Tenontosaurus, Dryosauridae. In D. B. Weishampel, H. Osmolska, and P. Dodson (eds.), The Dinosauria. University of California Press, Berkeley 498-509 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
61518 D. B. Weishampel and J. B. Weishampel. 1983. Annotated localities of ornithopod dinosaurs: implications to Mesozoic paleobiogeography. The Mosasaur 1:43-87 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]