7 miles northwest of Rumsey (250 ft level): Late/Upper Campanian - Maastrichtian, Canada
collected by C. M. Sternberg 1924-1926
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Osteichthyes
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Osteichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Testudines indet.
Batsch 1788
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Reptilia
- Champsosauridae
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Champsosauridae indet.
Cope 1876
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Reptilia
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Thescelosaurus sp.
Gilmore 1913
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1 individual | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Crocodylia
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Crocodylia indet.
(Owen 1842)
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Mammalia
- Stagodontidae
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Eodelphis sp.
Matthew 1916
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 51.7° North, 112.9° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 59.5° North, 78.7° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Campanian - Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Edmonton |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | coarse,brown,gray sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "a coarse, gray to brownish, sandstone bed" | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Articulated whole bodies: | some |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated major elements: | many |
| Disassociated minor elements: | many |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Collectors: | C. M. Sternberg | Collection dates: | 1924-1926 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 45758 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-11-30 12:06:31 | Last modified: | 2022-02-16 04:13:28 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-11-30 12:06:31 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 12117. | ETE | C. M. Sternberg. 1926. Notes on the Edmonton Formation of Alberta. Canadian Field-Naturalist 40:102-104 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |