South Saskatchewan River, north of Medicine Hat (base) (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.2° N, 110.6° W: paleocoordinates 57.2° N, 74.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Belly River Group, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale and concretionary carbonate

• shales with "calcareous concretionary bands"

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by Dawson in 1883

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: J. W. Dawson. 1884. Observations on the geology of the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 40:376-388 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 72264: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 29.05.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Pleuroceridae
Goniobasis sp. Lea snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea glabra Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Pholadida - Corbulidae