Joffre Bridge Road Cut Fish Layer (Paleocene of Canada)

Also known as ETE Locality 1611, Joffre Bridge; UALVP Locality No. 56 horizon A

Where: Alberta, Canada (52.3° N, 113.6° W: paleocoordinates 58.6° N, 90.7° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lacombe Member (Paskapoo Formation), Tiffanian (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)

• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: .

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; silty mudstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: ab_chan_fill ETE event: flood, ETE env comment: 0
• ETE rock type adj: silty, ETE lithology comments: 0

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: quarrying,

• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 478, 483, 482, 485, 454, ; ETE museum list:

Primary reference: M. V. H. Wilson. 1996. Taphonomy of a mass-death layer of fishes in the Paleocene Paskapoo Formation at Joffre Bridge, Alberta Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 33:1487-1498 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22732: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 29.05.2001, edited by John Alroy and Patricia Holroyd

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Taxonomic list

• not the same as any of the Joffre Bridge mammal collections (see)
unclassified
  -
Speirsaenigma lindoei n. gen. n. sp.4
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Percopsidae
Crustacea
  -
Crustacea indet. BrĂ¼nnich 1772
Actinopteri
 Amiiformes - Amiidae
Amiidae indet. Huxley 1861 bowfin
 Teleostei -
Joffrichthys symmetropterus n. gen. n. sp.1 Li and Wilson 1996
 Osteoglossiformes -
Lopadichthys sp.3 Murray et al. 2018
UALVP 34770, previously included in Joffrichthys symmetropterus
 Percopsiformes - Percopsidae
Massamorichthys wilsoni n. gen. n. sp.2
Massamorichthys wilsoni n. gen. n. sp.2 Murray 1996