Pasquia Hills, Pierre Shale (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Manitoba, Canada (53.8° N, 101.6° W: paleocoordinates 58.4° N, 62.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pierre Shale Formation (Montana Group), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. Bardack. 1968. Fossil vertebrates from the marine Cretaceous of Manitoba. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 5:145-153 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 36754: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 12.02.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Polycotylidae
"Dolichorhynchops kirki" = Trinacromerum kirki
"Dolichorhynchops kirki" = Trinacromerum kirki Russell 1935 plesiosaur
vertebrae and phalanges