Calf Creek bird locality (Eocene of Canada)

Also known as "Cypress Hills" in part

Where: Saskatchewan, Canada (49.5° N, 108.8° W: paleocoordinates 51.2° N, 99.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cypress Hills Formation, Chadronian (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• according to Weigel, mammalian genera suggest equivalency to the lowest part of the Chadron Formation of South Dakota

Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandy, conglomeratic sandstone

• "The sediments were deposited by rather swift streams emptying into temporary lakes. The presence of a crocodile and a boid [see "Calf Creek" locality, Collection 16919] suggests tropical or semitropical conditions...."
• the birds occur in a matrix of conglomeratic sandstone and sands with included clay pellets

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Saskatchewan Museum of Natural History. Mentions these bird fossils as being part of >40,000 vertebrate fossils from the Cypress Hills.

Primary reference: R. D. Weigel. 1963. Oligocene birds from Saskatchewan. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 26(3):257-262 [R. Whatley/R. Whatley/R. Whatley]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52960: authorized by Robin Whatley, entered by Robin Whatley on 29.08.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Aves
 Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae
Paractitis bardi n. gen. n. sp.
Paractitis bardi n. gen. n. sp. snipe
 Cuculiformes - Cuculidae
Neococcyx mccorquodalei n. gen. n. sp.
Neococcyx mccorquodalei n. gen. n. sp. cuckoo
Reptilia
 Galliformes - Odontophoridae
Nanortyx inexpectatus n. gen. n. sp.
Nanortyx inexpectatus n. gen. n. sp. Weigel 1963 New World quail