TMP JD-1 (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (52.0° N, 112.9° W: paleocoordinates 59.7° N, 84.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tolman Member (Horseshoe Canyon Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• from Unit 3

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coarse channel fill; sandstone

• "stacked paleochannel sandstone"

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by Brinkman in 2003; reposited in the TMP

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: D. W. Larson, D. B. Brinkman, and P. R. Bell. 2010. Faunal assemblages from the upper Horseshoe Canyon Formation, an early Maastrichtian cool-climate assemblage from Alberta, with special reference to the Albertosaurus sarcophagus bonebed. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 47:1159-1181 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135743: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.11.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Batoidea -
Rhinobatoidea indet. ray
TMP 2009.136.2
 Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae
Myledaphus sp. Cope 1876 guitarfish
TMP 2009.136.1
Amphibia
 Salientia -
Anura indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1813 frog
 Proteida - Batrachosauroididae
Opisthotriton sp. Auffenberg 1961 salamander
 Caudata - Urodela
Scapherpeton sp. Cope 1876 salamander
Reptilia
 Archosauria -
Archosauria indet. Cope 1869 archosaur
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hypacrosaurus altispinus Brown 1913 lambeosaurine
Actinopteri
 Holostei -
Holostei "indet. A"
TMP 2009.136.3
 Amiiformes - Amiidae
Cyclurus sp. Agassiz 1839 bowfin
 Esociformes - Esocidae
Oldmanesox sp. Wilson et al. 1992
TMP 2009.136.4, 2009.136.6
 Acanthomorphata -
"Acanthomorpha indet." = Acanthomorphata
"Acanthomorpha indet." = Acanthomorphata Rosen 1973
TMP 2009.136.9
 Albuliformes - Albulidae
Coriops sp. Estes 1969 bonefish