Also known as Smoking Hills Formation Husky Bend
Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (69.7° N, 129.0° W: paleocoordinates 78.5° N, 68.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Smoking Hills Formation, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; shale
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: Sample C-132693
Primary reference: L. V. Hills, E. L. Nicholls, L. M. Nunez-Betelu and D. J. McIntyre. 1999. Hesperornis (Aves) from Ellesmere Island and palynological correlation of known Canadian localities. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 36:1583-1588 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36384: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 27.01.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| unclassified | |
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Spongodinium delitiense Ehrenberg 1936 | |
| Dinophyceae | |
Chatangiella ditissima, Chatangiella granulifera, Chatangiella hexacalpis, Chatangiella spectabilis, Isabelidinium acuminatum, Alterbidinium minus
Isabelidinium acuminatum Stover and Evitt 1978
Alterbidinium minus Lentin and Williams 1985 | |
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Fromea chytra acritarchs
Fromea fragilis Stover and Evitt 1962 acritarchs | |
| Reptilia | |
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| Rhiptocorys veligera | |
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Rhiptocorys veligera Lejeune-Carpentier and Sarjeant 1983 | |