Verdigris Coulee (UA-MR-5): Late Santonian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Cimolodontidae
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 49.1° North, 111.8° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 57.8° North, 67.1° West (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Santonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 | *Epoch: | Senonian |
| *International age/stage: | Campanian | ||
| Key time interval: | Late Santonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 85.7 - 83.6 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Milk River | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: upper part of formation | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Collection methods: | bulk,surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | UALVP MR-5 | ||
| Database number: | 14424 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1994-07-27 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1994-07-27 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1510. | R. C. Fox. 1971. Early Campanian multituberculates (Mammalia: Allotheria) from the upper Milk River Formation, Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 8:916-938 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano] |