Trochu (UA-3): Lancian, Canada
collected by T. Schowalter 1966
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Stagodontidae
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Didelphodon vorax
Marsh 1889
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Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Neoplagiaulacidae
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Mesodma thompsoni
Clemens 1964
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
Coordinates: | 51.8° North, 113.0° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 59.5° North, 84.6° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 | *Epoch: | Senonian |
Key time interval: | Lancian | ||
Age range of interval: | 70.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | white argillaceous siltstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "white-weathering clayey silt" | |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Disassociated major elements: | some |
Disassociated minor elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (float),field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Collectors: | T. Schowalter | Collection dates: | 1966 |
Metadata
Database number: | 14638 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1994-07-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2009-06-19 11:21:27 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1994-07-26 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
2229. | J. A. Lillegraven. 1969. Latest Cretaceous mammals of upper part of Edmonton Formation of Alberta, Canada, and review of marsupial-placental dichotomy in mammalian evolution. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions 50:1-122 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |