Loc. 22, Pakowki Coulee [Foremost Mbr, Judith River Fm]: Middle Campanian, Canada
collected by Russell & Landes 1934-1936

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites obtusus (Meek 1876)
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Polinices subcrassa
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Mactra sp. Linnaeus 1767
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina maylandensis Russell and Landes 1937
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Alberta
Coordinates: 49.1° North, 110.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:56.4° North, 76.5° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Middle Campanian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Belly River Formation:Foremost
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Foremost [Mbr] Fm, which overlies the Early Campanian Pakowki Fm, and is overlain by the Oldman [Mbr] Fm (non-marine) of the Judith River [Fm] Gp (Late Campanian). AGE: Late Campanian on the basis of ammonite (and other groups) biostratigraphy; Middle Campanian according to Dawson et el. - Geological Atlas of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the basal Foremost Fm.

Foremost Formation is likely middle Campanian in age, see Fowler et al. 2017 supplementary data for more details on age constraints of the Foremost Formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Sandstone. LITHIFICATION: lithified.
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Very shallow siliciclastic marine setting.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite,original calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:GSC
Collectors:Russell & Landes Collection dates:1934-1936
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: L.S. Russell and R. W. Landes. REPOSITORY: Geological Survey of Canada (GSC)
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for bivalvia, gastropoda, scaphopoda, and cephalopoda.
Metadata
Database number:82680
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-07-31 06:30:15 Last modified:2022-03-21 06:36:14
Access level:the public Released:2008-07-31 06:30:15
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

27815. L. S. Russell and R. W. Landes. 1937. Geology of the Southern Alberta Plains. Part II. Paleontology of the marine formations of the Montana Group. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 221 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]