Also known as microvertebrate, Bonebed 103, DPP
Where: Alberta, Canada (50.8° N, 111.3° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 61.0° N, 65.4° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Oldman Formation (Belly River Group), Middle Campanian (83.6 - 72.2 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: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Myledaphus bipartitus Cope 1876 elasmobranch | |
Gnathostomata | |
Osteichthyes "indet. A" Huxley 1880 bony fish | |
Osteichthyes | |
"Kindleia sp." = Cyclurus
"Kindleia sp." = Cyclurus Agassiz 1839 bowfin | |
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Teleostei "indet. D", Teleostei indet., Teleostei "indet. A"3, Teleostei "indet. N"3, Teleostei "indet. L"3, Teleostei "indet. E"3
Teleostei "indet. D" ray-finned fish
Teleostei indet. ray-finned fish | |
Esocoidea indet. Bleeker 1859 ray-finned fish | |
Coriops amnicolus Estes 1969 bonefish | |
Paralbula casei Estes 1969 ray-finned fish | |
Reptilia | |
Lacertilia indet. lizard | |
Chelydridae indet. Swainson 1839 turtle | |
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Ankylosauria indet. ankylosaur
cf. Thescelosaurus neglectus Gilmore 1913 ornithopod | |
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid | |
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Theropoda indet. theropod | |
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cf. Dromaeosauridae indet. Colbert and Russell 1969 maniraptoran
Saurornitholestes langstoni Sues 1978 maniraptoran | |
Troodon formosus Leidy 1856 maniraptoran | |
Leidyosuchus canadensis Lambe 1907 crocodilian | |
Champsosaurus natator Parks 1933 choristodere | |
Mammalia | |
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758 mammal | |
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Amphibia | |
Scapherpeton tectum Cope 1876 salamander | |
Opisthotriton kayi Auffenberg 1961 salamander | |
Anura indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1813 frog |