Kleskun Hill Park, site B: Late/Upper Campanian, Canada
collected 2004-2008
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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Fanti and Miyashita 2009 | 6 specimens | ||||||||
| other fish, not listed separately | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Ankylosauridae
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Ankylosauridae indet.
Brown 1908
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Fanti and Miyashita 2009 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| TMP 2004.23.9 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Pachycephalosauridae
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Pachycephalosauridae indet.
Sternberg 1945
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Fanti and Miyashita 2009 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
| TMP 2004.93.1A, B | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Hypsilophodontidae
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Hypsilophodontidae indet.
Dollo 1882
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Fanti and Miyashita 2009 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| TMP 2004.93.5 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Hadrosauridae indet.
Cope 1869
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Fanti and Miyashita 2009 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
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Reptilia
- Troodontidae
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Troodon sp.
Leidy 1856
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Fanti and Miyashita 2009 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| TMP 2004.23.3 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Dromaeosauridae
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Saurornitholestes sp.
Sues 1978
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Fanti and Miyashita 2009 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| TMP 2004.23.4 | ||||||||||
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Richardoestesia gilmorei
Currie et al. 1990
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Fanti and Miyashita 2009 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| TMP 2004.93.3 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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Aves indet.
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Fanti and Miyashita 2009 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| TMP 2004.93.4 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Tyrannosauridae
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Tyrannosauridae indet.
Osborn 1906
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Fanti and Miyashita 2009 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Cimolodontidae
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Cimolodon sp.
Marsh 1889
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Fanti and Miyashita 2009 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| TMP 2004.23.2 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Stagodontidae
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Didelphodon sp.
Marsh 1889
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Fanti and Miyashita 2009 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| TMP 2004.23.1 | ||||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Salmoniformes
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Esocoidea indet.
Bleeker 1859
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Fanti and Miyashita 2009 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| TMP 2004.23.7; "most similar to Oldmanesox sp." | ||||||||||
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Actinopteri
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Holostei informal indet. A
(Müller 1846)
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Fanti and Miyashita 2009 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
| TMP 2004.23.6, 2004.93.2, 2004.93.5 | ||||||||||
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Holostei informal indet. B
(Müller 1846)
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Fanti and Miyashita 2009 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| TMP 2004.23.8 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 55.3° North, 118.5° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 63.8° North, 80.8° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Campanian | Ammonoid zone: | Baculites compressus |
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Wapiti | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: above an ash layer dated as 73.77 ± 1.46 Ma (Ar/Ar) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | paleosol/pedogenic silty sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: inclined heterolithic strata; actually a fine sandstone, laminated, carbonate-cemented | |
| Environment: | channel lag |
| Geology comments: "well-drained, channel-lag and overbank deposits" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | concentrated |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | variable |
| Disassociated major elements: | many |
| Disassociated minor elements: | many |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,surface (float),surface (in situ),sieve,field collection |
| Rock censused: | 400 cm2 (area) |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | TMP | Collection dates: | 2004-2008 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 89605 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-06-04 10:41:04 | Last modified: | 2021-09-23 12:27:27 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-06-04 10:41:04 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 76819. | F. Fanti, P. J. Currie, S. Graber, K. Ormay, and B. Hunt. 2007. Exploration and discovery in northwest Alberta’s Peace Country. Alberta Palaeontological Society Bulletin 22(3):15-18 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 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] | |
| 30044 | ETE | F. Fanti and T. Miyashita. 2009. A high latitude vertebrate fossil assemblage from the Late Cretaceous of west-central Alberta, Canada: evidence for dinosaur nesting and vertebrate latitudinal gradient. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 275(1-4):37-53 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 76767 | B. Holland, P. R. Bell, F. Fanti, S. M. Hamilton, D. W. Larson, R. Sissons, C. Sullivan, M. J. Vavrek, Y. Wang and N. E. Campione. 2021. Taphonomy and taxonomy of a juvenile lambeosaurine (Ornithischia: Hadrosauridae) bonebed from the late Campanian Wapiti Formation of northwestern Alberta, Canada. PeerJ 9:e11290:1-38 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano] |