Where: Saskatchewan, Canada (49.9° N, 106.5° W: paleocoordinates 56.2° N, 71.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: In apparently conformable relationship the Bearpaw Formation succeeds the Belly River Formation in the southern Rocky Mountain Foothills, and the Judith River Formation eastwards across the plain. Conformably overlain in ascending order by the Eastend, Whitemud and Battle formations in the Cypress Hills of the Alberta-Saskatchewan borderland, in the South Saskatchewan River valley and other parts of southwestern Saskatchewan. AGE: Late Campanian, on the basis of ammonoid biostratigraphy; Baculites ovatus/compressus zone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, bentonitic, concretionary, silty claystone and poorly lithified, bentonitic, concretionary shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the NMC

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Multiple collectors. REPOSITORY: National Museum of Canada.

Primary reference: P. S. Warren. 1934. Palaeontology of the Bearpaw Formation. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada 28:81-97 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87442: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.03.2009

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