Valley of Battle Creek (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Saskatchewan, Canada (49.5° N, 109.9° W: paleocoordinates 56.7° N, 82.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Baculites baculus ammonoid zone, Belanger Member (Bearpaw Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Top of the Belanger Member, about 200 feet below local top of formation. The Belanger Member belongs to the Baculites baculus zone, indicating an earliest Maastrichtian age.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the ROM

Primary reference: L. S. Russell. 1967. A pedunculate cirripede from Upper Cretaceous rocks of Saskatchewan. Journal of Paleontology 41:1544-1547 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 226182: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.06.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Thecostraca
 Calanticomorpha -
"Calantica saskatchewanensis" = Pachyscalpellum saskatchewanensis
"Calantica saskatchewanensis" = Pachyscalpellum saskatchewanensis Russell 1967 barnacle