UALVP locality 526, Watino: Early/Lower Turonian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri
Leucichthyops sp. Cockerell 1919
Actinopteri - Elopiformes - Osmeroididae
Osmeroides cf. delicatus (Cockerell 1919)
Actinopteri - Ichthyodectiformes - Saurodontidae
cf. Gillicus sp. Hay 1898
Actinopteri - Ichthyodectiformes - Ichthyodectidae
Ichthyodectes ctenodon Cope 1870
cf. Xiphactinus sp. Leidy 1870
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Alberta
Coordinates: 55.7° North, 117.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:59.5° North, 73.8° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Turonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Turonian
Age range of interval:93.90000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Smoky Formation:Kaskapau Member:Vimy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: At Watino, Cretaceous sandstone is exposed at river level and the bone bed material is known only from loose blocks in heavily slumped debris. The nearest well-exposed section is at Hunting Creek, located 8 km NNE of Watino, where the upper part of the Dunvegan Formation and lower part of the overlying Kaskapau Formation are exposed. Using sea-level as a datum, the top of the Dunvegan Formation can be traced southward from Erin Lodge on the Peace River, to Hunting Creek near the Smoky River, and then projected south to Watino where the Dunvegan-Kaskapau contact is predicted to lie about 70 m above the level of the Smoky River. Therefore, rocks exposed near water level in the vicinity of Watino are probably part of the Dunvegan Formation, while those above, including the sediments with the fossil material, are part of the Kaskapau Formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:phosphatic poorly lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: On this basis, it is concluded that the Hunting Creek phosphatic sandstone and the bone-bearing sandstone recovered from slumped debris at Watino are the same bed. Correlation of the phosphatic sandstone bed from Howard Creek to wells to the south and west suggest that the bed marks the top of Kaskapau unit II (Varban & Plint 2005). This bone bed is interpreted as a winnowed lag deposit and suggests a period of increased wave energy at the sea floor, an interpretation supported by the presence of forced-regressive shoreface sandstones at the top of unit II in the British Columbia Foothills. At Hunting Creek, the phosphatic sandstone, which is highly lenticular, forms wave ripples, hummocky cross-stratification and gutter casts, suggestive of at least intermittent storm wave action.
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:-lag
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all macrofossils,all microfossils
Collection methods:chemical,mechanical,acetic
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Laboratory for Vertebrate Paleontology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (UALVP)
Metadata
Database number:221341
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:J. Mordaunt
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2021-07-26 15:02:34 Last modified:2022-10-27 09:55:50
Access level:the public Released:2021-07-26 15:02:34
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
77471. M. V. H. Wilson and Y. Chalifa. 1989. Fossil marine actinopterygian fishes from the Kaskapau Formation (Upper Cretaceous: Turonian) near Watino, Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 26:2604-2620 [M. Clapham/J. Mordaunt]