Also known as Ross Creek

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.0° N, 110.3° W: paleocoordinates 57.4° N, 81.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pierre Shale Formation (Montana Group), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; marl and claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. W. Dawson in 1883

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

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 72265: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 29.05.2007, edited by Austin Hendy

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