Where: Alberta, Canada (51.8° N, 113.0° W: paleocoordinates 59.5° N, 84.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Scollard Formation, Lancian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; white, argillaceous siltstone
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by T. Schowalter in 1966
Collection methods: surface (float),
Primary reference: J. A. Lillegraven. 1969. Latest Cretaceous mammals of upper part of Edmonton Formation of Alberta, Canada, and review of marsupial-placental dichotomy in mammalian evolution. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions 50:1-122 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 14638: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.07.1994
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Mesodma thompsoni Clemens 1964 multituberculate | |
Didelphodon vorax Marsh 1889 metatherian |