Quality Creek, site 1 (facies 7): Turonian, Canada
collected by R. McCrea & C. Helm 2002

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
Rylaarsdam et al. 2006
"large logs"
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815
Rylaarsdam et al. 2006
Osteichthyes
Osteichthyes indet. Huxley 1880
"fish scales"
Reptilia
Testudinata indet. (Oppel 1811)
2 specimens
    = cf. Naomichelys sp. Hay 1908
Rylaarsdam et al. 2006
Reptilia - Crocodylia
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
1 specimen
Reptilia
Dinosauria indet. (Owen 1842)
Reptilia - Nodosauridae
Ankylosauria indet. Osborn 1923
    = Nodosauridae indet. Marsh 1890
Rylaarsdam et al. 2006
Reptilia - Theropoda
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
Rylaarsdam et al. 2006 1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:British Columbia
Coordinates: 55.2° North, 120.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:59.4° North, 77.1° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:976 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Turonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Turonian
Age range of interval:93.90000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Smoky Formation:Kaskapau Member:Haven
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "unit V"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:current ripples,coarse calcareous sandstone
Secondary lithology:planar lamination mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "millimetre- to centimetre-scale mud laminae separate decimetre-scale packages of rippled sandstone. In the lower 1.5 m of the sandstone, coarser material, including sideritized mudstone intraclasts, disarticulated oyster shells, and large logs are present." "coarse-grained sandstone held together by a calcium carbonate (CaCO3) cement"
Environment:interdistributary bay Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Glacial or sequence phase:transgressive
Geology comments: "distributary channel"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:salvage,surface (float),surface (in situ),observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collectors:R. McCrea & C. Helm Collection dates:Jun 2002
Collection method comments: vertebrate fossils from a fallen sandstone block (Quality Block A or "Main Block")
Metadata
Database number:63084
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-08-04 07:00:19 Last modified:2022-10-27 09:57:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-08-04 07:00:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

73958. R. T. McCrea and L. G. Buckley. 2004. Excavating British Columbia’s first dinosaurs and other palaeontological projects in the Tumbler Ridge area. Alberta Palaeontological Society, Eighth Annual Symposium 24-33 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

64040 V. M. Arbour and P. J. Currie. 2016. Systematics, phylogeny and palaeobiogeography of the ankylosaurid dinosaurs. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 14(5):385-444 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd/M. Carrano]
73951 R. T. McCrea, L. G. Buckley, A. G. Plint, P. J. Currie, J. W. Haggart, C. W. Helm, and S. G. Pemberton. 2014. A review of vertebrate track-bearing formations from the Mesozoic and earliest Cenozoic of western Canada with a description of a new theropod ichnospecies and reassignment of an avian ichnogenus. In M. G. Lockley & S. G. Lucas (ed.), Fossil Footprints of Western North America. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 62:5-94 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
18154ETE J. R. Rylaarsdam, B. L. Varban, A. G. Plint, L. G. Buckley, and R. T. McCrea. 2006. Middle Turonian dinosaur paleoenvironments in the Upper Cretaceous Kaskapau Formation, northeast British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 43:631-652 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]