Syncrude Base Mine, West side III (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as TMP 2000.29.01; Athabascasaurus bitumineus type locality

Where: Alberta, Canada (57.0° N, 111.7° W: paleocoordinates 56.4° N, 57.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wabiskaw Member (Clearwater Formation), Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• Lowermost Albian age based on angiosperm palynomorphs and Foraminifera

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; medium, glauconitic sandstone

• under fully marine conditions in the lower shoreface to offshore transition zone
• 3 m thick, heterolithic, very fine- to medium-grained glauconitic sandstone unit

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Syncrude, Canada in 2000; reposited in the TMP

Collection methods: quarrying

Primary reference: P. S. Druckenmiller and E. E. Maxwell. 2010. A new Lower Cretaceous (lower Albian) ichthyosaur genus from the Clearwater Formation, Alberta, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 47:1037-1053 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119020: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 20.10.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ichthyosauria - Ophthalmosauridae
Athabascasaurus bitumineus n. gen. n. sp.
Athabascasaurus bitumineus n. gen. n. sp. Druckenmiller and Maxwell 2010 ichthyosaur
TMP 2000.29.01 - holotype (nearly complete skull, missing premaxilla & anterior half of lower jaw; complete, articulated presacral axial skeleton & anterior caudal series; portions of R scapula & coracoid; articulated pelvic girdle)