Crestomere School (Paleocene of Canada)
Where: Alberta, Canada (52.6° N, 114.1° W: paleocoordinates 59.0° N, 91.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Paskapoo Formation, Tiffanian (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; bentonitic siltstone
• "bentonitic siltstones, in which the mammalian fossils occur with those of freshwater mollusks" (Scott 2006)
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: "discovered in 1975 at a roadcut" (Scott 2006)
Primary reference: R. C. Fox. 1990. The succession of Paleocene mammals in western Canada. Geological Society of America Special Paper 243:51-70 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 14941: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Litolestes ignotus Jepsen 1930 hedgehog | |
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