St. Mary River
Description
Source: Wikipédia
The St. Mary River Formation is a geologic formation of Late Cretaceous (71.9-67 Ma) age of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin in southwestern Alberta and northwesternmost Montana. It was first described from outcrops along the St. Mary River by George Mercer Dawson in 1883, and it takes its name from the river.
Fossils from the formation include remains of dinosaurs, as well as bivalve shells, plant fossils, and trace fossils.
Découvertes
Source: The Paleobiology Database
Site(s) correspondant(s) à cette formation: 20
Scabby Butte, Site 3 : Alberta - ? 2208 2237 13943 42675 78157 one of six sites 4.1 km NE of Nobleford in secs 18 and 19, Tp. 11, Rge. 22
on an erosional bench on a westward pomontory near the northeast corner of NE1/4, NW1/4, sec. 18.
St. Mary River Formation (Montana) : Montana - Glacier 1822 42675 county assignment uncertain- bank of Lethbridge Irrigation Canal : Alberta - ? 9230 14144 29189 61518 NE 1/4, sec. 4, T12, R23 W of 4th meridian. Specimen on bank of Lethbridge Irrigation Canal, W of bridge on Alberta Highway 23, 1.5 miles S of Barons, Alberta, Canada. Altitude for Barons. Skeleton from 150 ft W of footprint.
- Del Bonita : Alberta - ? 52782 Del Bonita; sec 11, T1N, R23W, 4th meridian
- Scabby Butte, Site 1 : Alberta - ? 2208 13943 18562 32668 78157 About 100 ft. N of the south line, SE1/4, SE1/4, sec. 19; 19 mi S of Little Bow River Pachyrhinosaurus type locality.
- Scabby Butte, Site 2 : Alberta - ? 2208 13943 32668 62727 76767 78157 On the westerly escarpment in SE1/4, SE1/4, sec. 19
- Scabby Butte, Site 5 : Alberta - ? 2208 13943 61518 Northwest escarpment in NW1/4, sec.18, about 20 ft below upper prairie level.
- Scabby Butte, Site 6 : Alberta - ? 2208 13943 32668 62727 This site includes Scabby Butte as a whole. The number is applied to all surface finds.
- BFD, MOR 609 (PROXY) : Montana - Glacier 14713 NW Montana, Glacier Co. - coordinates for St. Mary River
- 3 miles west of Buffalo Lake : Montana - Glacier 12314 14768 14769 18564 33415 62751 3 mi W of Buffalo Lake, MT, 45 mi W of Sweet Grass, on Blackfeet Indian Reservation
- Montanoceratops cerorhynchus identifié comme Leptoceratops cerorhynchus n. sp.
- Little Rocky Coulee (MOR SM-033) : Montana - Glacier 14768 17718 on property of the Hutterite Big Sky colony, Little Rocky Coulee, a few meters from the presumed type site
- Holy Family Mission (AMNH) : Montana - Glacier 17500 6 mi (9.66 km) above Holy Family Mission, near Browning, MT
- Pachyrhinosaurus type, Little Bow River : Alberta - ? 18562 18575 32668 52782 62727 near center of SW 1/4, sec 24, T14, R23, W 4th meridian; on N side of Little Bow River, 50 ft above river; E of Carmongay; second specimen from 300 yds SW of type
- Lethbridge egg site : Alberta - ? 14221 near Lethbridge
- Cardston hadrosaur site : Alberta - ? 24165 near Cardston
- Scabby Butte : Alberta - ? 2208 25123 52721 62727 78202 from Scabby Butte, NE of Fort McLeod, about 3 mi E of Nobleford
- Hadrosauridae identifié comme Trachodon mirabilis
- Shell Hell (MOR Loc. 703) : Montana - Glacier 32794 MOR locality 703, "in the SW 1/4 Section 19, Township 31 North, Range 9 West...in Glacier County, northwestern Montana. The locality is along the southern bank of the Two Medicine River approximately 16 km (10 miles) southeast of Browning on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation"
- St. Mary River tracksite : Alberta - Cardston 17313 54846 68758 70703 77956 along the St. Mary River, 20 km SSW of Lethbridge; T5-T6, R23, W 4th meridian
- Maycroft tracksite : Alberta - Lethbridge 54846 70703 along Oldman River at Maycroft, approx. T10, R2, W 5th meridian
- Waldron Flats : Alberta - ? 64543 The holotype was recovered from Upper Cretaceous rocks along the Oldman River in the area of Waldron Flats, approximately 164 km south of Calgary, Alberta, Canada (Figure 1). The uppermost St. Mary River Formation and lowermost Willow Creek Formation are both exposed along the river in this area. Due to the strongly upthrust and faulted condition of the bedrock strata in the area and the absence of obvious outcrops of the Battle Formation and Whitemud Member marker beds in the quarry area, it has been difficult to determine the precise stratigraphic position of the specimen in relation to the contact between the St. Mary River and Willow Creek formations. Nonetheless, existing geologic maps of the area suggest that the quarry occurs within the upper 30 m of the St. Mary River Formation [9]. This stratigraphic position is supported by the presence of the angiosperm palynomorph Scollardia trapaformis (D.R. Braman, personal communication) in the host matrix of TMP 2005.055.0001. S. trapaformis is diagnostic for upper beds of both the St. Mary River Formation and the combined Carbon and Whitemud members of the Horseshoe Canyon Formation (southern and central Alberta) [10, 11]. Carbon Member strata north of Drumheller have yielded the chasmosaurine Eotriceratops xerinsularis [10: Figure 3] and are assigned an age of 67.5–68.5 mega-annum (Ma) [10–12]. Given that well-established chronostratigraphic correlations across southern Alberta equate the upper Horseshoe Canyon Formation with the upper St. Mary River Formation (see Figure 9 in [13]), the holotype likely shares this same middle Maastrichtian age.
Publication(s)
La base comprend 37 publication(s).
Source: The Paleobiology Database
- ↑1 2 3 4 5 6 7 W. Langston. 1975. The ceratopsian dinosaurs and associated lower vertebrates from the St. Mary River Formation (Maestrichtian) at Scabby Butte, southern Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 12:1576-1608 (https://doi.org/10.1139/e75-142)
- ↑1 2 3 4 5 6 W. Langston. 1976. A Late Cretaceous vertebrate fauna from the St. Mary River Formation in western Canada. Athlon: Essays on Palaeontology in Honour of Loris Shano Russell
- ↑1 J. A. Lillegraven and M. C. McKenna. 1986. Fossil mammals from the "Mesaverde" Formation (Late Cretaceous, Judithian) of the Bighorn and Wind River basins, Wyoming, with definitions of Late Cretaceous North American Land-Mammal "Ages". American Museum Novitates 2840:1-68
- ↑1 2 J. D. Gardner. 2000. Albanerpetontid amphibians from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian and Maastrichtian) of North America. Geodiversitas 22(3):349-388
- ↑1 2 3 D. A. Eberth. 2015. Origins of dinosaur bonebeds in the Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 52(8):655-681 (https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2014-0200)
- ↑1 2 R. E. Heinrich, J. P. Hunter, and D. B. Weishampel. 1998. Mammals from the St. Mary River formation (Upper Cretaceous), Montana: New insights on an 'Edmontonian' land mammal age. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(3):50A (https://doi.org/10.1080/02724631003763490)
- ↑1 2 W. Langston. 1960. A hadrosaurian ichnite. National Museum of Canada Natural History Papers 4:1-9
- ↑1 P. J. Currie. 1989. Dinosaur footprints of western Canada. Dinosaur Tracks and Traces. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
- ↑1 H. Haubold. 1971. Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie / Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology. Part 18. Ichnia Amphibiorum et Reptiliorum Fossilium. (https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02926251)
- ↑1 2 D. B. Weishampel and J. B. Weishampel. 1983. Annotated localities of ornithopod dinosaurs: implications to Mesozoic paleobiogeography. The Mosasaur 1:43-87
- ↑1 2 3 M. J. Ryan and A. P. Russell. 2001. Dinosaurs of Alberta (exclusive of Aves). Mesozoic Vertebrate Life
- ↑1 2 3 C. M. Sternberg. 1950. Pachyrhinosaurus canadensis, representing a new family of the Ceratopsia, from southern Alberta. National Museum of Canada Bulletin 118:109-120 (https://doi.org/10.4095/105057)
- ↑1 2 3 4 P. J. Currie, W. Langston, and D. H. Tanke. 2008. A new species of Pachyrhinosaurus (Dinosauria, Ceratopsidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada. in A New Horned Dinosaur from an Upper Cretaceous Bone Bed in Alberta
- ↑1 2 3 4 5 6 L. S. Russell. 1966. Dinosaur hunting in western Canada. Royal Ontario Museum, Life Sciences Contribution 70:1-37 (https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.52089)
- ↑1 B. Holland, P. R. Bell, and F. Fanti, S. M. Hamilton, D. W. Larson, R. Sissons, C. Sullivan, M. J. Vavrek, Y. Wang, N. E. Campione. 2021. Taphonomy and taxonomy of a juvenile lambeosaurine (Ornithischia: Hadrosauridae) bonebed from the late Campanian Wapiti Formation of northwestern Alberta, Canada. PeerJ 9:e11290:1-38 (https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11290)
- ↑1 2 L. M. Witmer and D. B. Weishampel. 1993. Remains of theropod dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous St. Mary River Formation of northwestern Montana, with special reference to a new maniraptoran braincase. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 13(3, suppl.):63A
- ↑1 2 H. F. Osborn. 1917. Extinct vertebrates. Forty-Eighth Annual Report of the American Museum of Natural History for the Year 1916
- ↑1 R. S. Lull. 1933. A revision of the Ceratopsia or horned dinosaurs. Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 3(3):1-175 (https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.5716)
- ↑1 2 3 B. J. Chinnery and D. B. Weishampel. 1998. Montanoceratops cerorhynchus (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia) and relationships among basal neoceratopsians. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(3):569-585 (https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.1998.10011085)
- ↑1 B. Brown and E. M. Schlaikjer. 1942. The skeleton of Leptoceratops with the description of a new species. American Museum Novitates 1169:1-15
- ↑1 C. M. Sternberg. 1951. Complete skeleton of Leptoceratops gracilis Brown from the Upper Edmonton Member on Red Deer River, Alberta. National Museum of Canada Bulletin 123:225-255 (https://doi.org/10.4095/105059)
- ↑1 P. J. Makovicky. 2010. A redescription of the Montanoceratops cerorhynchus holotype with a review of referred material. New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium. Indiana University Press, Bloomington
- ↑1 M. T. Carrano. 2006. Fossil Vertebrate Collections, Museum of the Rockies
- ↑1 2 W. P. Coombs. 1995. Ankylosaurian tail clubs of middle Campanian to early Maastrichtian age from western North America, with description of a tiny club from Alberta and discussion of tail orientation and tail club function. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 32:902-912 (https://doi.org/10.1139/e95-075)
- ↑1 2 C. M. Sternberg. 1947. New dinosaur from southern Alberta, representing a new family of the Ceratopsia. Geological Society America Bulletin 58:1230
- ↑1 2 K. Carpenter and K. Alf. 1994. Global distribution of dinosaur eggs, nests, and babies. Dinosaur Eggs and Babies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
- ↑1 2 L. S. Russell. 1964. Cretaceous non-marine faunas of northwestern North America. Royal Ontario Museum, Life Sciences Contribution 61:1-24 (https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.52224)
- ↑1 2 L. M. Lambe. 1899. On reptilian remains from the Cretaceous of north-western Canada. The Ottawa Naturalist 13:68-70
- ↑1 L. M. Lambe. 1899. [Mr. L. M. Lambe reports as follows…]. Geological Survey of Canada Summary Report 1898(part A):182-190
- ↑1 C. M. Sternberg. 1963. Early discoveries of dinosaurs. National Museum of Canada Natural History Papers 21:1-4
- ↑1 2 J. P. Hunter, R. E. Heinrich, and D. B. Weishampel. 2010. Mammals from the St. Mary River Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(3):885-898 (https://doi.org/10.1080/02724631003763490)
- ↑1 2 3 4 P. J. Currie, G. C. Nadon, and M. G. Lockley. 1991. Dinosaur footprints with skin impressions from the Cretaceous of Alberta and Colorado. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 28:102-115 (https://doi.org/10.1139/e91-009)
- ↑1 M. G. Lockley, G. Nadon, and P. J. Currie. 2003. A diverse dinosaur-bird footprint assemblage from the Lance Formation, Upper Cretaceous, eastern Wyoming; implications for ichnotaxonomy. Ichnos 11:229-249 (https://doi.org/10.1080/10420940490428625)
- ↑1 I. Díaz-Martínez, X. Pereda-Suberbiola, and F. Pérez-Lorente, J. I. Canudo. 2015. Ichnotaxonomic review of large ornithopod dinosaur tracks: temporal and geographic implications. PLoS 10(2):e0115477:1-50 (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115477)
- ↑1 2 G. C. Nadon. 1993. The association of anastomosed fluvial deposits and dinosaur tracks, eggs, and nests: implications for the interpretation of floodplain environments and a possible survivial strategy for ornithopods. Palaios 8:31-44 (https://doi.org/10.2307/3515220)
- ↑1 P. J. Currie and E. B. Koppelhus. 2015. The significance of the theropod collections of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology to our understanding of Late Cretaceous theropod diversity. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 52(8):620-629 (https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2014-0173)
- ↑1 2 C. M. Brown and D. M. Henderson. 2015. A new horned dinosaur reveals convergent evolution in cranial ornamentation in Ceratopsidae. Current Biology 25:1641-1648 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.04.041)
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