Also known as microvertebrate, Bonebed 103, DPP
Where: Alberta, Canada (50.8° N, 111.3° W: paleocoordinates 58.1° N, 75.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Oldman Formation (Belly River Group), Middle 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.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; lenticular, fine, silty, carbonaceous sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by E. Nicholls in 1990; reposited in the TMP
Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), sieve,
• Screenwashed elements were collected using a screen with 9 openings per centimeter.
Primary reference: D. B. Brinkman. 1990. Paleontology of the Judith River Formation (Campanian) of Dinosaur National Park, Alberta, Canada: evidence from vertebrate microfossil locality. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 78:37-54 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 47795: authorized by Robin Whatley, entered by Robin Whatley on 01.03.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano, Philip Mannion and John Alroy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gnathostomata | |
Osteichthyes "indet. A" bony fish | |
Mammalia | |
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758 mammal | |
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Reptilia | |
Lacertilia indet. lizard | |
Chelydridae indet. Swainson 1839 turtle | |
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Leidyosuchus canadensis Lambe 1907 crocodilian | |
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cf. Thescelosaurus neglectus Gilmore 1913 ornithopod | |
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid | |
Ankylosauria indet. ankylosaur | |
Theropoda indet. theropod | |
Troodon formosus Leidy 1856 maniraptoran | |
cf. Dromaeosauridae indet. Colbert and Russell 1969 maniraptoran
Saurornitholestes langstoni Sues 1978 maniraptoran | |
Champsosaurus natator Parks 1933 choristodere | |
Amphibia | |
Anura indet. frog | |
Opisthotriton kayi Auffenberg 1961 salamander | |
Scapherpeton tectum Cope 1876 salamander | |
Actinopteri | |
"Kindleia sp." = Cyclurus
"Kindleia sp." = Cyclurus Agassiz 1839 bowfin | |
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Coriops amnicolus Estes 1969 bonefish | |
Paralbula casei Estes 1969 | |
Esocoidea indet. Bleeker 1859 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Myledaphus bipartitus Cope 1876 guitarfish |