Bylot Island [SCDP] (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Canadaga arctica type locality

Where: Nunavut, Canada (73.5° N, 79.0° W: paleocoordinates 71.4° N, 25.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kanguk Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• middle Maastrichtian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: prodelta; lithology not reported

• "shallow marine to prodelta"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by 1989

Primary reference: P. J. Currie. 1997. Sino-Canadian Dinosaur Project. In P. J. Currie & K. Padian (ed.), Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs 661 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 118411: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 14.10.2011, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Plesiosauria -
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Lambeosaurinae indet. Parks 1923 lambeosaurine
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
Aves
 Hesperornithiformes - Hesperornithidae
Canadaga arctica n. gen. n. sp.
Canadaga arctica n. gen. n. sp. Hou 1999 bird
Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Mosasauridae indet. Gervais 1852 mosasaur
Gnathostomata
  -
Chondrichthyes indet. Huxley 1880 cartilaginous fish