RTMP BB 96 (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as ETE Locality 1514, Bonebed 96

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.8° N, 111.3° W: paleocoordinates 58.1° N, 75.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Dinosaur Park Formation (Belly River Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: . radiometric intage_min

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: channel lag; sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluv_deltaic, ETE sed env 2: chan_bar ETE event: ., ETE env comment: .
• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: .

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by K. Aulenback in 1990; reposited in the TMP

• ETE reference list: 478

Primary reference: N. R. Beavan and A. P. Russell. 1999. An elasmobranch assemblage from the terrestrial-marine transitional Lethbridge Coal Zone (Dinosaur Park Formation: Upper Campanian), Alberta, Canada. Journal of Paleontology 73(3):494-503 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 22640: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 27.03.2001, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Osteichthyes
 Acipenseriformes - Acipenseridae
Acipenseridae indet. Bonaparte 1831 ray-finned fish
 Acipenseriformes - Polyodontidae
Polyodontidae indet. Bonaparte 1838 paddlefish
Reptilia
 Plesiosauria -
Plesiosauria indet. de Blainville 1835 plesiosaur
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
Ceratopsidae indet. Marsh 1888 ceratopsid
 Loricata -
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Mosasauridae indet. Gervais 1852 mosasaur
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843 gar
 Elopiformes - Phyllodontidae
Paralbula casei Estes 1969
 Aulopiformes - Enchodontidae
Enchodus sp. Agassiz 1835
Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
"Hybodus montanensis" = Meristodonoides montanensis
"Hybodus montanensis" = Meristodonoides montanensis Case 1978 elasmobranch
 Orectolobiformes - Orectolobidae
"Cretorectolobus olsoni" = Cretorectolobus olsoni, "Eucrossorhinus microcuspidatus" = Cretorectolobus olsoni
"Cretorectolobus olsoni" = Cretorectolobus olsoni Case 1978 wobbegong
"Eucrossorhinus microcuspidatus" = Cretorectolobus olsoni Case 1978 wobbegong
 Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
Odontaspis aculeatus Cappetta and Case 1975 sand tiger shark
 Lamniformes - Archaeolamnidae
 Lamniformes - Carchariidae
 Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae
Ischyrhiza mira Leidy 1856 ray
 Rajiformes -
Protoplatyrhina renae Case 1978 guitarfish
 Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae
Myledaphus bipartitus Cope 1876 guitarfish
 Chimaeriformes - Callorhynchidae
"Elasmodus greenoughii" = Elasmodus greenoughi
"Elasmodus greenoughii" = Elasmodus greenoughi Agassiz 1838 plownose chimaera