Notukeu Creek (14 m) (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Ponteix

Where: Saskatchewan, Canada (49.8° N, 107.4° W: paleocoordinates 56.2° N, 72.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bearpaw Shale Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Upper Campanian (either B. cuneatus or B. reesidei zones) of the Bearpaw Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

• "Bearpaw Shale"

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: T. Sato. 2003. Terminonatator ponteixensis, a new elasmosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Saskatchewan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(1):89-103 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31122: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 14.04.2003

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Taxonomic list

• pollen are "the sediments," apparently meaning those surrounding the elasmosaur
unclassified
  -
 Anthophyta -
 Life -
Fromea chytra acritarchs
Fromea fragilis Stover and Evitt 1962 acritarchs
Dinophyceae
 Peridiniales - Peridiniaceae
Isabelidinium cooksoniae Lentin and Williams 1977
  -
Wallodinium luna Lentin and Williams 1973
Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Terminonatator ponteixensis n. gen. n. sp. Sato 2003 elasmosaur