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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Crustacea | |
Crustacea indet. BrĂ¼nnich 1772 | |
Actinopteri | |
Amiidae indet. Huxley 1861 bowfin | |
Joffrichthys symmetropterus n. gen. n. sp.1
Joffrichthys symmetropterus n. gen. n. sp.1 Li and Wilson 1996 | |
Lopadichthys sp.3 Murray et al. 2018 UALVP 34770, previously included in Joffrichthys symmetropterus
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Massamorichthys wilsoni n. gen. n. sp.2
Massamorichthys wilsoni n. gen. n. sp.2 Murray 1996 |