Arrhinoceratops brachyops Parks 1925
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Description
Holotype specimen: ROM 796, complete skull lacking lower jaws.
Holotype locality and horizon: Five kilometres upstream of Bleriot Ferry, along the Red Deer River, Alberta. ROM 796 is from between the no. 8 and no. 10 coal seams, below the DMT, and within a narrow stratigraphic range spanning the upper half of the Horsethief Member to the lower half of the Morrin Member of the Horseshoe Canyon Formation (Mallon et al., 2014).
Referred specimens: CMN 8882, partial skull of a juvenile, including dentaries with prominent lateral ridge; ROM 1439, an almost complete skull with lower jaws, syncervical and left forelimb elements (scapula, humerus, radius, metacarpals and several phalanges); CMN 56500 (field #WL 123), nasal horncore with triangular transverse cross section.
Tentatively referred specimens: TMP 1981.048.0006, partial frill with low, blunt epi-ossifications.
Distribution: From the upper Horsethief Member through the Morrin Member up to the DMT of the Horseshoe Canyon Formation, Alberta, Canada (sensu Eberth & Braman, 2012). TMP 1981.048.0006 is from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation (unknown horizon) near Devon, Alberta (Tanke, 1984).
Age: The base of the Horseshoe Canyon Formation near Drumheller has been assigned an age of approximately 72.5 Ma (Eberth & Braman, 2012; Eberth et al., 2013). The younger DMT in the middle of the formation lies just above the inferred position of the Campanian– Maastrichtian boundary (Eberth & Braman, 2012, fig. 4), with an accepted age of 70.6 Ma (see discussion in Eberth & Braman, 2012; Eberth et al., 2013). The stratigraphic interval that extends upwards from the base of the formation to the DMT is approximately 165 m thick (Eberth & Braman, 2012: fig. 4), and suggests a rate of sedimentation of 8.7 cm kyr –1. Identifiable Arrhinoceratops remains are known to occur through a stratigraphic interval of 75 m that extends down section from the base of the DMT (Eberth et al., 2013). This suggests a temporal range of approximately 860 kyr for that taxon in the region, between 71.5 and 70.6 Ma.
DESCRIPTION OF CMN 8882
As reconstructed (Fig. 1), the skull has a basal length (rostral to occipital condyle) of approximately 465 mm, and is 900 mm in total length. Other relevant measurements are provided in Table 1.
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- Cites
- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.5339513 (DOI)
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.1111/zoj.12294 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5339511 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/A271FFC4FFA8FFEEFFB8FFA8C77AFF9A (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/5E4887BCFFA9FFEFFF7DF8BCC3C8F947 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ROM
- Material sample ID
- ROM 796
- Scientific name authorship
- Parks
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Ornithischia
- Family
- Ceratopsidae
- Genus
- Arrhinoceratops
- Species
- brachyops
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Arrhinoceratops brachyops Parks, 1925 sec. Mallon, Ryan & Campbell, 2015
References
- Parks WA. 1925. Arrhinoceratops brachyops, a new genus and species of Ceratopsia from the Edmonton Formation of Alberta. University of Toronto Studies, Geology Series 19: 1 - 15.
- Mallon JC, Holmes R, Anderson JS, Farke AA, Evans DC. 2014. New information on the rare horned dinosaur Arrhinoceratops brachyops (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 51: 618 - 634.
- Eberth DA, Braman DR. 2012. A revised stratigraphy and depositional history for the Horseshoe Canyon Formation (Upper Cretaceous), southern Alberta plains. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 49: 1053 - 1086.
- Tanke DH. 1984. Dinosaurs of the Devon area with reference to a large hadrosaur femur. Fossils Quarterly 3: 19 - 30.
- Eberth DA, Evans DC, Brinkman DB, Therrien F, Tanke DH, Russell LS. 2013. Dinosaur biostratigraphy of the Edmonton Group (Upper Cretaceous), Alberta, Canada: evidence for climate influence. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 50: 701 - 726.