Canyon Ski Quarry (Paleocene of Canada)
Where: Alberta, Canada (52.2° N, 113.7° W: paleocoordinates 58.6° N, 90.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Paskapoo Formation, Tiffanian (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: R. C. Fox. 1988. Late Cretaceous and Paleocene mammal localities of southern Alberta. Occasional Paper of the Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology 6:1-38 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]more details
PaleoDB collection 14934: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• said to be superposed to the Joffre Bridge sites
same as Fox 1990a
same as Fox 1990a
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Amphibia | |
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Mammalia | |
Neoplagiaulax sp. Lemoine 1882 multituberculate | |
"Diacocherus meizon" = Adunator meizon
"Diacocherus meizon" = Adunator meizon Gingerich 1983 elephant shrew | |
Ignacius frugivorus Matthew and Granger 1921 primate | |
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? Nannodectes sp. Gingerich 1975 primate | |
Litolestes ignotus Jepsen 1930 hedgehog | |
Leptacodon packi Jepsen 1930 placental |