Joffre Bridge Southwest (site 4) (Paleocene of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (52.3° N, 113.6° W: paleocoordinates 58.6° N, 90.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Paskapoo Formation, Tiffanian (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)

• upper half of unit 4

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; lithified, gray siltstone

• "a river once ran through the locality and that over time it changed course and formed a now extinct lake"
• fine-grained matrix

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Primary reference: D. C. Wighton and M. V. H. Wilson. 1986. The Gomphaeschninae (Odonata: Aeshnidae): new fossil genus, reconstructed phylogeny, and geographical history. Systematic Entomology 11:505-522 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119839: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 02.11.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Specimens deposited in UAPC ( University of Alberta Paleontological Collections
Insecta
 Odonata - Gomphaeschnidae
Gomphaeschninae indet.2, "Alloaeschna paskapooensis" = Alloaeschna paskapooensis2, "Alloaeschna quadrata n. sp." = Alloaeschna paskapooensis
Gomphaeschninae indet.2 Tillyard and Fraser 1940 true dragonfly
UAPC 6170/6171
"Alloaeschna paskapooensis" = Alloaeschna paskapooensis2 Wighton and Wilson 1986 true dragonfly
UAPC 6272/6266 (horizon B)
"Alloaeschna quadrata n. sp." = Alloaeschna paskapooensis Wighton and Wilson 1986 true dragonfly
UAPC 6181 collected by B. Speirs, 1980
 Odonata - Aeshnidae
Aeshnidae indet. Leach 1815 darner dragonfly
UAPC 6190 collected by B. Speirs, 1980
 Odonata - Synlestidae
Albertalestes paskapooensis2 Jouault and Nel 2023 malachite
UAPC 6269, 8152
 Orthoptera - Palaeorehniidae
Albertoilus cervirufi n. gen. n. sp.3 Kevan and Wighton 1981 grasshopper
UAPC 6176 collected by B. Speirs, 22 Sept. 1980
Albertoilus ? cervirufi4 Kevan and Wighton 1981 grasshopper
UAPC 6184 collected by B. Speirs
 Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae
"Donacia (Donacia) wightoni" = Donacia wightoni1
"Donacia (Donacia) wightoni" = Donacia wightoni1 Askevold 1990 leaf beetle
UAPC 5566(411), (412), (413), (414), (415), (416)