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
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Laosaurus minimus n. sp.
Gilmore 1924
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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:
13678 | ETE | 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] |
12619 | ETE | 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] |
12780 | ETE | 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] |
17297 | ETE | O. Kuhn. 1964. Fossilium Catalogus. I: Animalia. Pars 105. Ornithischia (Supplementum I) 1-80 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
16684 | ETE | 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] |
23838 | ETE | 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] |