TMP NL-4: Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Canada
collected by Brinkman 2003

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
Anura indet. (Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
8 specimens
TMP 2009.139.6
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela
Scapherpeton sp. Cope 1876
9 specimens
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Batrachosauroididae
Opisthotriton sp. Auffenberg 1961
3 specimens
Reptilia - Ankylosauridae
Ankylosauridae indet. Brown 1908
1 specimen
TMP 2009.139.4
Reptilia - Ceratopsidae
Ceratopsidae indet. Marsh 1888
17 specimens
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
Hypacrosaurus altispinus Brown 1913
59 specimens
Reptilia
Paronychodon sp. Cope 1876
1 specimen
TMP 2009.139.4
Reptilia - Troodontidae
Troodon sp. Leidy 1856
5 specimens
TMP 2003.34.1
Reptilia
Avialae indet. Gauthier 1986
1 specimen
Reptilia - Tyrannosauridae
Tyrannosauridae indet. Osborn 1906
1 specimen
Reptilia - Testudines - Chelydridae
Chelydridae indet. Swainson 1839
1 specimen
Mammalia
Metatheria indet. (Huxley 1880)
1 specimen
Actinopteri - Salmoniformes
Salmoniformes indet. Bleeker 1859
1 specimen
TMP 2009.139.1
Actinopteri
Holostei informal indet. A (Müller 1846)
106 specimens
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Amiidae
Cyclurus sp. Agassiz 1839
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Alberta
Coordinates: 52.0° North, 112.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:59.7° North, 84.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Early/Lower Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Edmonton Formation:Horseshoe Canyon Member:Morrin/Tolman
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: from Drumheller Marine Tongue, Unit 2

Drumheller Marine Tongue section spans Morrin/Tolman contact zone and has been dated to 70.896+/0.048Ma. For revised age stratigraphy of the Horseshoe Canyon Formation, see Eberth and Braman 2012 and Eberth et al. 2020
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: "brackish water"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Abundance in sediment:abundant
Fragmentation:occasional
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:TMP
Collectors:Brinkman Collection dates:2003
Metadata
Database number:135739
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-11-06 10:47:28 Last modified:2022-03-29 03:52:59
Access level:the public Released:2012-11-06 10:47:28
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

43426. D. W. Larson, D. B. Brinkman, and P. R. Bell. 2010. Faunal assemblages from the upper Horseshoe Canyon Formation, an early Maastrichtian cool-climate assemblage from Alberta, with special reference to the Albertosaurus sarcophagus bonebed. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 47:1159-1181 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]