Loc. 24, Miners Coulee [Foremost Mbr, Judith River Fm] (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (49.0° N, 111.3° W: paleocoordinates 56.4° N, 77.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Foremost Formation (Belly River Group), Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Foremost [Mbr] Fm, which overlies the Early Campanian Pakowki Fm, and is overlain by the Oldman [Mbr] Fm (non-marine) of the Judith River [Fm] Gp (Late Campanian). AGE: Late Campanian on the basis of ammonite (and other groups) biostratigraphy; Middle Campanian according to Dawson et el. - Geological Atlas of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the basal Foremost Fm.

•Foremost Formation is likely middle Campanian in age, see Fowler et al. 2017 supplementary data for more details on age constraints of the Foremost Formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Very shallow siliciclastic marine setting.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Sandstone. LITHIFICATION: lithified.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

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 82683: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 31.07.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea minerensis Russell and Landes 1937 oyster