Kleskun Hill Park, site A (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (55.3° N, 118.5° W: paleocoordinates 63.8° N, 80.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Baculites compressus ammonoid zone, Wapiti Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• above an ash layer dated as 73.77 ± 1.46 Ma (Ar/Ar)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: dry floodplain; paleosol/pedogenic mudstone

Size class: mesofossils

Collected in 2004-2008

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: F. Fanti, P. J. Currie, S. Graber, K. Ormay, and B. Hunt. 2007. Exploration and discovery in northwest Alberta’s Peace Country. Alberta Palaeontological Society Bulletin 22(3):15-18 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 89604: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 04.06.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gnathostomata
  -
Osteichthyes indet.1 bony fish
other fish, not listed separately
Actinopteri
 Amiiformes - Amiidae
Amiidae indet.1 Huxley 1861 bowfin
UALVP 50638.01, 50638.02
Reptilia
 Theropoda - Troodontidae
Troodon sp. Leidy 1856 maniraptoran
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
Tyrannosauridae indet.1 Osborn 1906 tyrannosaurid
 Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae
Ankylosauridae indet.1 Brown 1908 ankylosaurid
UALVP 48747
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
 Squamata -
Squamata indet. squamates
 Squamata - Chamopsiidae
Socognathus unicuspis2 Gao and Fox 1991 squamates
UALVP 50958, 50961, 50963
 Squamata -
Kleskunsaurus grandeprairiensis n. gen. n. sp.2 Nydam et al. 2010 squamates
UALVP 50959
 Testudines -
Testudines indet.1 Batsch 1788 turtle
UALVP 48754