Michichi Creek: Late/Upper Campanian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Stagodontidae
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Didelphodon coyi n. sp.
Fox and Naylor 1986
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 51.6° North, 112.5° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 59.1° North, 76.6° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 | *Epoch: | Senonian |
| *International age/stage: | Maastrichtian | ||
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Edmonton | Formation: | Horseshoe Canyon | Member: | Drumheller |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: = HCF A
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: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:only one taxon | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | TMP HC-10 | ||
| Database number: | 14500 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2022-03-29 03:48:53 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1540. | R. C. Fox and B. G. Naylor. 1986. A new species of Didelphodon Marsh (Marsupialia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada: paleobiology and phylogeny. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 172(3):357-380 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano] |