Hanna's Site, RTMP L1132: Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Multituberculata
Multituberculata indet. Cope 1884
Brinkman et al. 2004 1 specimen
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Cimolomyidae
Cimolomys clarki Sahni 1972
Brinkman et al. 2004 2 specimens
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae
Mesodma cf. antiqua
Brinkman et al. 2004 1 specimen
Mammalia - Multituberculata
Cimexomys sp. Sloan and Van Valen 1965
Brinkman et al. 2004 3 specimens
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825
14 specimens
Reptilia - Testudines - Chelydridae
Chelydridae indet. Swainson 1839
1 specimen
Reptilia - Baenidae
Baenidae indet. Cope 1882
6 specimens
Reptilia - Anguidae
cf. Odaxosaurus piger (Gilmore 1928)
4 specimens
Reptilia
Varanoidea indet. Gray 1827
1 specimen
Reptilia - Helodermatidae
Helodermatidae indet. Gray 1837
16 specimens
Reptilia
cf. Palaeosaniwa canadensis Gilmore 1928
2 specimens
Reptilia - Chamopsiidae
Leptochamops sp. Estes 1964
4 specimens
Reptilia
Champsosaurus sp. Cope 1876
14 specimens
Reptilia - Tyrannosauridae
Tyrannosauridae indet. Osborn 1906
1 specimen
Reptilia
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758
4 specimens
Reptilia - Dromaeosauridae
Richardoestesia gilmorei Currie et al. 1990
1 specimen
    = Richardoestesia cf. gilmorei Currie et al. 1990
Larson and Currie 2013
TMP 1996.062.0030b
Richardoestesia isosceles Sankey 2001
Larson and Currie 2013 1 specimen
TMP 1996.062.0030a
Saurornitholestes langstoni Sues 1978
4 specimens
Reptilia
Paronychodon lacustris Cope 1876
3 specimens
nomen dubium belonging to Paronychodon
Reptilia - Ankylosauridae
Ankylosauridae indet. Brown 1908
1 specimen
Reptilia - Nodosauridae
Nodosauridae indet. Marsh 1890
1 specimen
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869
108 specimens
Reptilia - Ceratopsidae
Ceratopsidae indet. Marsh 1888
12 specimens
Reptilia - Pachycephalosauridae
Pachycephalosauridae indet. Sternberg 1945
1 specimen
Reptilia - Crocodylia
Leidyosuchus sp. Lambe 1907
82 specimens
    = Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842
Alroy 2007
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae
Albanerpeton sp. Estes and Hoffstetter 1976
18 specimens
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela
Scapherpeton tectum Cope 1876
188 specimens
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Batrachosauroididae
Opisthotriton kayi Auffenberg 1961
187 specimens
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
Anura indet. (Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
90 specimens
Actinopteri
Holostei informal indet. A Müller 1846
36 elements
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Amiidae
Amiidae indet. Huxley 1861
2 elements
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Atractosteus occidentalis (Leidy 1856)
107 elements
original and current combination Lepidotus occidentalis
Actinopteri
Teleostei informal indet. D Müller 1846
15 elements
Teleostei indet. Müller 1846
197 elements
Actinopteri - Esociformes - Esocidae
Estesesox foxi Wilson et al. 1992
13 elements
Actinopteri - Elopiformes - Phyllodontidae
Paralbula casei Estes 1969
3 elements
Phyllodontinae indet. Darteville and Casier 1949
6 elements
Actinopteri - Albuliformes - Albulidae
Coriops amnicolus Estes 1969
7 elements
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Sphaeriidae
Pisidiidae indet. Gray 1857
spelled with current rank as Pisidiinae
Bivalvia - Unionida - Unionidae
Unionidae indet. Rafinesque 1820
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Alberta
Coordinates: 49.2° North, 110.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:56.4° North, 76.2° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Belly River Formation:Oldman
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Nesmo's unit; middle unit of Oldman (but estimated)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: argillaceous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "associated with muddy sandstones"
Environment:crevasse splay
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Lagerst�tten type:concentrate
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Spatial orientation:random
Articulated whole bodies:none
Associated major elements:none
Disassociated major elements:many
Disassociated minor elements:many
Size sorting:well
Fragmentation:frequent
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:TMP
Metadata
Also known as:HS
Database number:45819
Authorizer:M. Carrano, J. Alroy Enterer:M. Carrano, J. Alroy
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-12-06 07:41:34 Last modified:2022-02-08 07:56:53
Access level:the public Released:2004-12-06 07:41:34
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11964.ETE J. Peng, A. P. Russell, and D. B. Brinkman. 2001. Vertebrate microsite assemblages (exclusive of mammals) from the Foremost and Oldman Formations of the Judith River Group (Campanian) of southeastern Alberta: an illustrated guide. Provincial Museum of Alberta, Natural History Occasional Paper 25:1-54 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

19636 J. Alroy. 2007. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates and so forth. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
11931ETE D. B. Brinkman, A. P. Russell, D. A. Eberth and J. Peng. 2004. Vertebrate palaeocommunities of the lower Judith River Group (Campanian) of southeastern Alberta, Canada, as interpreted from vertebrate microfossil assemblages. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 213:295-313 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
78157 D. A. Eberth. 2015. Origins of dinosaur bonebeds in the Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 52(8):655-681 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
48570 D. W. Larson and P. J. Currie. 2013. Multivariate analyses of small theropod dinosaur teeth and implications for paleoecological turnover through time. PLoS ONE 8(1):e54329:1-14 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]