Also known as microvertebrate, NESS, DPP, Bonebed 98

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.8° N, 111.5° W: paleocoordinates 58.1° N, 76.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dinosaur Park Formation (Belly River Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Microvertebrate sites of Brinkman (1990) are "...placed in stratigraphic sequence by reference to a disconformity located about sixty meters below the base of the Lethbridge Coal (Eberth, 1990). The stratigraphic position of each site is expressed in terms of meteres above or below the disconformity (Fig. 2, Brinkman, 1990)" where positive numbers are above and negative below. DPP-Brinkman section measurement = 1.0 m

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; fine-grained, medium, silty sandstone and lenticular, carbonaceous mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by D. Brinkman; reposited in the TMP

Collection methods: bulk, surface (float),

• Weight % fossil content 0.0545 kg fossil weight, fossil/sample = 0.03% (Table 3, Eberth 1990). Screenwashed elements were collected using a screen with 9 openings per centimeter.

Primary reference: D. B. Brinkman. 1986. Microvertebrate sites: progress and prospectus. In B. G. Naylor (ed.), Field Trip Guidebook to Dinosaur Provincial Park, 2 June 1986. Dinosaur Systematics Symposium, Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Drumheller, Alberta 24-37 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 47793: authorized by Robin Whatley, entered by Robin Whatley on 01.03.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano, Patricia Holroyd and John Alroy

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