John Neills Ranch (75 ft level) [ROM]: Late Campanian, Canada
collected by G. Lindblad 1923
| Country: | Canada |
State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: |
51.6° North, 112.8° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 62.0° North, 66.5° West (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
| Period: | Cretaceous |
Epoch: | Late Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian |
10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| Key time interval: | Late Campanian |
| Age range of interval: | 83.6 - 72.2 m.y. ago |
| Geological group: | Edmonton |
Formation: | Horseshoe Canyon |
Member: | Drumheller |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Stratigraphy comments: "member A" according to Lindblad's field notes
For revised age stratigraphy of the Horseshoe Canyon Formation, see Eberth and Braman 2012 and Eberth et al. 2020 |
| Primary lithology: | fine,intraclastic,brown,gray sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "a light olive gray, in places yellowish-brown, fine-grained sandstone, which contains abundant claystone galls and pieces of coalifed wood and other plant debris." |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
| Collection methods: | mechanical,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | ROM |
| Collectors: | G. Lindblad |
Collection dates: | 12 Jun 1923 |
| Database number: | 138968 |
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano |
Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham |
Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-02-05 04:09:46 |
Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public |
Released: | 2013-02-05 04:09:46 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
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