Late Cretaceous
Campanian
Dinosaur Park Formation
Centrosaurus and Corythosaurus are the most common large herbivores in the lower part of the formation and have not been found outside southern Alberta. Gorgosaurus and Edmontonia are found in the first 2/3 of the formation. Chasmosaurus and Gryptosaurus are less common and only found in the first 1/3. Euplocephalus is found throughout the formation. Parasaurlophus, is rare as are bone head pachycephlasasurs and the ostrich mimic ornithomimosaurs. Small theropods and ornithopods are present.
Centrosaurines had short frills with hornlets the nasal horn is variable it can be prominent, bent or a bose. Centrosaurus had moderately large nasal horn and small brow horns with hornlets adorn the frill.
Gryposaurus was a hadrosaurine closely related to Kritosaurus.
Euplocephalus was a ankylosaurid. It had a tail club it had short spine on the forequarters and the base of the tail. Two related but seperate ankylosaurids are Scolosaurus and Dyoplosaurus also found in the formation. Anklosaursid had broader mouths than nodosaurs and large triangular hornlets at he back cornors of heavily armored heads. Parasaurlophus was a lambeosaurid rare in the formation but more common in south.
Chasmosaurus had large holes to reduce its weight. It had 2 short horns above its eyes, and a single short nose horn. Males possibly had longer eye horns than females. Chasmosarines are less common at Dinosaur Park. Ankylosaurid fauna of North America was more diverse in the Dinosaur Park formation.
Gorgosaurus was an albertosaurine and lived in a lush floodplain environment along the edge of an inland sea. An apex predator, it was at the top of the food chain, preying upon abundant ceratopsids and hadrosaurs. It was a relatively gracile tyrannosaur that may have specialized in lambesaurids and centrosaurines. The albertosaurines, lambeosaurines and centrosaurines seemed to have shared a prefererences. Later when centrosaurines disappear and lambeosaurines become rare the albertosaurines also become rare. Gorgosaurus actively hunted fleet-footed hadrosaurs. centrosaurine and lambeosaurines dominate in northern latitudes this pattern indicates shared ecological preferences.
In some areas, Gorgosaurus coexisted with another tyrannosaurid, Daspletosaurus. Though these animals were roughly the same size, there is some evidence of niche differentiation between the two. Gorgosaurus is the best-represented tyrannosaurid. Juveniles may have suppressed smaller theropods like troodontids and dromesaurs.
Corythosaurus a lambeosaurine, had a deep crest like a cocked hat on its head with complex air
passages. The young and females had small crests.
Edmontonia ,a nodosaur, had a narrow beak and was built for low browsing. It was broad in the belly and back. It was heavily armored with large forward directed spikes on the neck, with one spine partly split. Stegoceras, was a small pachycephlasur, lived in upland areas where few fossils have been preserved. It may have lived as mountain sheep do today. Its bony skull was 5 times thicker than a human’s, and had a smooth, domed roof and frill of bony bumps around the back, but none on the sides. It had a short deep face, and most of its teeth were sharp. Dromesaurs and troodontids are the small carnivores. Young tyrannoaurs may have competed with them suppressing their numbers. Parkosaurus a late example hypsilophodontids had skull and teeth differently designed from other members of the family. A rare small herbivore about 7.5 feet long.
Ornithomimosaurs were relatively common and may have been a prey for the younger more agile tyrannosaurs.