Where: Alberta, Canada (49.9° N, 110.3° W: paleocoordinates 57.0° N, 75.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Bearpaw [Shale] Formation, which overlies the Late Campanian Oldman Formation (brackish to non-marine), andis overlain by the Eastend Fm (Maastrichtian). AGE: Late Campanian on the basis of ammonite (and other groups) biostratigraphy; Baculites compressus biozone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 50 ft above base of section.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, gray shale and lithified, concretionary shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, original calcite

Collected by Russell & Landes in 1934-1936; reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: L.S. Russell and R. W. Landes. REPOSITORY: Geological Survey of Canada (GSC)

Primary reference: L. S. Russell and R. W. Landes. 1937. Geology of the Southern Alberta Plains. Part II. Paleontology of the marine formations of the Montana Group. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 221 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 82639: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 30.07.2008

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