Dinosaur Provincial Park (Oldman Formation): Judithian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Stagodontidae
Eodelphis sp. Matthew 1916
Mammalia - Pediomyidae
Pediomys sp. Marsh 1889
    = Pediomyidae indet. Simpson 1927
Alroy 2007
Mammalia - Alphadontidae
Turgidodon russelli (Fox 1979)
Turgidodon praesagus (Russell 1952)
Alphadon halleyi Sahni 1972
Mammalia - Gypsonictopidae
Gypsonictops lewisi Sahni 1972
Mammalia - Nyctitheriidae
cf. Nyctitheriidae indet. Simpson 1928
Mammalia
Paranyctoides sternbergi Fox 1979
Mammalia - Cimolestidae
Cimolestes sp. Marsh 1889
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Cimolodontidae
Cimolodon sp. Marsh 1889
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae
Mesodma primaeva (Lambe 1902)
Mammalia - Multituberculata
Cimexomys sp. Sloan and Van Valen 1965
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Cimolomyidae
Meniscoessus sp. Cope 1882
Cimolomys sp. Marsh 1889
Reptilia - Ankylosauridae
Ankylosauridae indet. Brown 1908
Arbour and Currie 2013
TMP 1979.14.164 (precise locality data unknown); 1991.36.321, fragmentary first cervical ring; 1983.36.120, tail club; 1993.36.421, tail club
Reptilia - Thescelosauridae
Orodrominae indet. Brown et al. 2013
Brown et al. 2013
Numerous specimens, precise locality details not given
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Alberta
Coordinates: 50.8° North, 110.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:57.9° North, 74.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Campanian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 7
*Epoch:Senonian
Key time interval: Judithian
Age range of interval: 83.6 - 72.1 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Oldman
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:apparently a composite of numerous small collections spanning "the upper 20 m" of the formation
additional list for the overlying, 80 m thick "Dinosaur Park Formation" appears to include the Steveville fauna (see)
Metadata
Database number:14451
Authorizer:J. Alroy, P. Mannion Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Tennant
Modifier:J. Tennant Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-05-15 00:00:00 Last modified:2013-05-10 07:23:37
Access level:the public Released:2002-05-15 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
4218. D. A. Eberth, P. J. Currie, D. B. Brinkman, M. J. Ryan, D. R. Braman, J. D. Gardner, V. D. Lam, D. N. Spivak, and A. G. Neuman. 2001. Alberta's dinosaurs and other fossil vertebrates: Judith River and Edmonton groups (Campanian-Maastrichtian). In C. L. Hill (ed), Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 61st Annual Meeting, Bozeman. Guidebook for the Field Trips: Mesozoic and Cenozoic Paleontology in the Western Plains and Rocky Mountains, Museum of the Rockies Occasional Paper 3:49-75 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

19636 J. Alroy. 2007. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates and so forth. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
46759 V. M. Arbour and P. J. Currie. 2013. Euoplocephalus tutus and the diversity of ankylosaurid dinosaurs in the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada, and Montana, USA. PLoS ONE 8(5):e62421:1.-39 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano]
46723 C. M. Brown, D. C. Evans, M. J. Ryan and A. P. Russell. 2013. New data on the diversity and abundance of small-bodied ornithopods (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Belly River Group (Campanian) of Alberta. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(3):495-520 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano]