ammonites
Rumsey Ferry road (ROM 804) (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Parksosaurus type

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.9° N, 111.8° W: paleocoordinates 58.4° N, 83.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Horseshoe Canyon Formation (Edmonton Group), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 65.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, concretionary, white sandstone

• "a concretion of hard, white sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected by Sternberg in 1922; reposited in the ROM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: W. A. Parks. 1926. Thescelosaurus warreni, a new species of orthopodous dinosaur from the Edmonton Formation of Alberta. University of Toronto Studies, Geology Series 21:1-42 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48624: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 24.03.2005