ammonites
3 miles below Tolman Ferry, Red Deer River (NMC) (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (51.8° N, 113.0° W: paleocoordinates 59.5° N, 84.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Edmonton Group, Maastrichtian (70.6 - 65.5 Ma)

• "Edmonton Formation" now a group; modern formational equivalent for this bed not known

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G. F. Sternberg in 1915; reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1924. On the skull and skeleton of Hypacrosaurus, a helmet-crested dinosaur from the Edmonton Cretaceous of Alberta. Canada Department of Mines Geological Survey Bulletin (Geological Series) 38(43):48-64 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45678: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 23.11.2004, edited by Jonathan Tennant