Also known as Nose Creek
Where: Alberta, Canada (51.0° N, 114.1° W: paleocoordinates 58.1° N, 89.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Paskapoo Formation, To2 (63.8 - 60.9 Ma)
• (?middle Torrejonian, To2), Protoselene opisthacus/Mixodectes pungens Interval Zone of
•Lofgren et al. (2004).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, chemical, sieve
• "hand quarrying... underwater screening... Resistant matrix was immersed in 10 percent industrial detergent and re-screened"
•specimen count approximate
•material in UALVP
Primary reference: C. S. Scott. 1997. A new Paleocene mammal site from Calgary, Alberta. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17(3):74A [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 14894: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.09.1998, edited by Matthew Carrano and Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Ignacius fremontensis Gazin 1971 primate | |
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Picrodus calgariensis n. sp.4
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Bessoecetor "sp. 1"2, Bessoecetor "sp. 2"2, Bessoecetor septentrionalis5, Propalaeosinopa albertensis
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Presbytherium taurus n. sp.3
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Neoplagiaulacidae indet.2, Ectypodus cf. szalayi2, Parectypodus sp.2, Parectypodus cf. sylviae2, Parectypodus corystes n. sp.2, Mimetodon silberlingi2, Mesodma pygmaea2, Xyronomys sp.2, Neoplagiaulax nelsoni2, Neoplagiaulax hunteri2
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