Dinosaur Park
721 occ.
101 taxa (21 genera)
1 countries
Description
The Dinosaur Park Formation is the uppermost member of the Belly River Group, a major geologic unit in southern Alberta. It was deposited during the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous, between about 76.5 and 74.4 million years ago. It was deposited in alluvial and coastal plain environments, and it is bounded by the nonmarine Oldman Formation below it and the marine Bearpaw Formation above it.
Genera
21 genera
Temporal range
252
201
145
66
0 Ma
Geological group / Member
Belly River
705
Top countries
🇨🇦 Canada
721
Depositional environments
Terrestrial indet.
272
Channel
151
Channel lag
148
Crevasse splay
64
Estuary / bay
37
Coarse channel fill
15
Coastal indet.
12
Fine channel fill
12
Marine indet.
5
Floodplain
2
Top collectors
L. J. Strong
68
P. Currie
45
P. J. Currie
45
C. M. Sternberg
36
L. Sternberg
33
B. Brown
27
D. Tanke
23
Brown
22
C. H. Sternberg
21
P. Dodson
19
D. Eberth
17
Kaisen
16
Collection activity by decade
1880s
1
1890s
4
1900s
6
1910s
92
1920s
48
1930s
26
1950s
10
1960s
14
1970s
55
1980s
224
1990s
173
2000s
55
2010s
29
2020s
9