Also known as Phil's Knob vertebrate microfossil bonebed
Where: Alberta, Canada (49.6° N, 111.0° W: paleocoordinates 56.9° N, 76.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Foremost Formation, Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Collected in 2009-2013, 2015; reposited in the TMP
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
Primary reference: T. M. Cullen, F. Fanti, C. Capobianco, M. J. Ryan, and D. C. Evans. 2016. A vertebrate microsite from a marine-terrestrial transition in the Foremost Formation (Campanian) of Alberta, Canada, and the use of faunal assemblage data as a paleoenvironmental indicator. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 444:101-114 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 181024: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 13.08.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Selachimorpha indet. Nelson 1984 elasmobranch | |
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch | |
Pseudomyledaphus sp. Kirkland et al. 2013 guitarfish | |
Odontaspididae indet. Müller and Henle 1839 sand tiger shark | |
Archaeolamna sp. Siverson 1992 mackerel shark | |
Elasmodus sp. Egerton plownose chimaera | |
Amphibia | |
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Scapherpeton sp. Cope 1876 salamander | |
Reptilia | |
Naomichelys sp. Hay 1908 turtle | |
Baenidae indet. Cope 1882 turtle | |
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle | |
Chelydridae indet. Swainson 1839 turtle | |
Adocus sp. Cope 1868 turtle | |
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle | |
Basilemys sp. Hay 1902 turtle | |
Squamata indet. squamates | |
Mosasauridae indet. Gervais 1852 mosasaur | |
Eusuchia indet. crocodilian | |
Ankylosauria indet. ankylosaur | |
Nodosauridae indet. Marsh 1890 ankylosaur | |
Ankylosauridae indet. Brown 1908 ankylosaurid | |
Pachycephalosauridae indet. Sternberg 1945 ornithischian | |
Ceratopsidae indet. Marsh 1888 ceratopsid | |
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid | |
Dromaeosauridae indet. Colbert and Russell 1969 maniraptoran | |
Tyrannosauridae indet. Osborn 1906 tyrannosaurid | |
Champsosaurus sp. Cope 1876 choristodere | |
Actinopteri | |
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Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843 gar | |
Horseshoeichthys sp. Newbrey et al. 2010 |