Where: Alberta, Canada (49.1° N, 111.0° W: paleocoordinates 56.5° N, 76.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pawkowki Formation, Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Pawkowki Formation, which overlies the Early Campanian Milk River Formation, is equivalent to the Lea Park Fm, and is overlain by the Judith River Fm (Late Campanian). AGE: Early Campanian on the basis of ammonite (and other groups) biostratigraphy; Baculites obtusus biozone. Early Campanian according to Dawson et el. - Geological Atlas of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the upper Pakowki Fm.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, original calcite

Collected by Russell & Landes in 1934-1936; reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: L.S. Russell and R. W. Landes. REPOSITORY: Geological Survey of Canada (GSC)

Primary reference: L. S. Russell and R. W. Landes. 1937. Geology of the Southern Alberta Plains. Part II. Paleontology of the marine formations of the Montana Group. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 221 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 82677: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 31.07.2008

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