Black Coulee: Late/Upper Santonian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Leptoceratopsidae
|
||||||||||
Gryphoceratops morrisoni n. gen., n. sp.
Ryan et al. 2012
|
1 specimen | |||||||||
ROM 56635 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Pachycephalosauridae
|
||||||||||
Acrotholus audeti n. gen., n. sp.
Evans et al. 2013
|
Evans et al. 2013 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
TMP 2008.045.0001, ROM 2962 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
|
||||||||||
Hadrosaurinae indet.
Lambe 1918
|
Larson et al. 2014 | 5 specimens | ||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
Coordinates: | 49.1° North, 111.4° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 55.0° North, 72.9° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Santonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Santonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 85.80000 - 83.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Milk River | Member: | Deadhorse Coulee |
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: | medium |
Fragmentation: | frequent |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | mechanical,survey of museum collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | ROM |
Metadata
Also known as: | Deadhorse Coulee | ||
Database number: | 125521 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano, G. Lloyd | Enterer: | M. Carrano, G. Lloyd | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2012-03-13 03:17:34 | Last modified: | 2012-03-12 11:17:34 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-03-13 03:17:34 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
40783. | M. J. Ryan, D. C. Evans, P. J. Currie, C. M. Brown, and D. Brinkman. 2012. New leptoceratopsids from the Upper Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada. Cretaceous Research 35(1):69-80 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
46763 | D. C. Evans, R. K. Schott, D. W. Larson, C. M. Brown, and M. J. Ryan. 2013. The oldest North American pachycephalosaurid and the hidden diversity of small-bodied ornithischian dinosaurs. Nature Communications 4:1828 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd] | |
56076 | D. W. Larson, N. E. Campione, C. M. Brown, D. C. Evans, and M. J. Ryan. 2014. Hadrosauroid material from the Santonian Milk River Formation of southern Alberta, Canada. In D. A. Eberth & D. C. Evans (ed.), Hadrosaurs 136-152 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |