Gilchrist Ranch (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Deer Creek Coulee; Dear Creek Ranch

Where: Alberta, Canada (49.1° N, 111.5° W: paleocoordinates 54.3° N, 73.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Deadhorse Coulee Member (Milk River Formation), Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• none given

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1991; reposited in the TMP

Primary reference: X.-C. Wu and D. B. Brinkman. 1993. A new crocodylomorph of "mesosuchian" grade from the Upper Cretaceous upper Milk River Formation, southern Alberta. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 13(2):153-160 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27531: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 09.12.2002

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Taxonomic list

• apparently only one taxon
Reptilia
 Loricata -
Gilchristosuchus palatinus n. gen. n. sp. Wu and Brinkman 1993 crocodilian