Wounded Knee (WK): Lancian, Canada
collected by P. Johnston & R. Fox 1979
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Lonchidiidae
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Lonchidion selachos
Estes 1964
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Chondrichthyes
- Rajiformes
- Rhinobatidae
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Myledaphus bipartitus
Cope 1876
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Osteichthyes
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Osteichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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Actinopteri
- Amiiformes
- Amiidae
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Kindleia fragosa
Jordan 1927
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recombined as Cyclurus fragosus | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
- Lepisosteidae
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Lepisosteus sp.
Agassiz 1843
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Actinopteri
- Aspidorhynchiformes
- Aspidorhynchidae
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Belonostomus longirostris
(Lambe 1902)
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Actinopteri
- Sciaenidae
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? Platacodon nanus
Marsh 1889
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Albanerpetontidae
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Albanerpeton sp.
Estes and Hoffstetter 1976
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3 specimens | |||||||||
= Albanerpetontidae indet.
Fox and Naylor 1982
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Gardner 2000 | |||||||||
UALVP 40039-40041 | ||||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
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Anura indet.
(Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
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Scotiophryne pustulosa
Estes 1969
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Discoglossidae
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Discoglossidae indet.
Günther 1859
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Batrachosauroididae
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Opisthotriton kayi
Auffenberg 1961
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Prodesmodon copei
Estes 1964
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Urodela
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Urodela indet.
(Duméril 1805)
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Scapherpeton tectum
Cope 1876
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Habrosaurus dilatus
Gilmore 1928
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UALVP 43921-43926 (premxillae), 43927 (maxilla), 43930-43933 (dentaries), 43928-43929 (vomers) and 43934 (atlas) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Glasbiidae
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Glasbius twitchelli
Archibald 1982
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1 specimen | |||||||||
UALVP 22725 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Pediomyidae
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"Pediomys" informal sp. A
Marsh 1889
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1 specimen | |||||||||
UALVP 22729; cf ."sp. A" from the Oldman Fm. of Alberta | ||||||||||
= Pediomyidae indet.
Simpson 1927
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Alroy 2007 | |||||||||
Pediomys elegans
Marsh 1889
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3 specimens | |||||||||
UALVP 22726-22728 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
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Alphadon cf. wilsoni
Lillegraven 1969
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2 specimens | |||||||||
UALVP 22723-22724 (3 measurements) | ||||||||||
= Alphadon jasoni
Storer 1991
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Storer 1991 | |||||||||
recombined as Nortedelphys jasoni | ||||||||||
and "A. sp."; confirmed by Johanson 1996b | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Alphadontidae
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Alphadon sp.
Simpson 1927
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44 specimens | |||||||||
UALVP 22678-22722 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Stagodontidae
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Didelphodon vorax
Marsh 1889
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1 specimen | |||||||||
UALVP 22730 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
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Eutheria informal indet. 1
(Huxley 1880)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
UALVP 22758; "New genus 1, new species" | ||||||||||
Eutheria informal indet. 2
(Huxley 1880)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
UALVP 22759; "New genus 2, new species" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Gypsonictopidae
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Gypsonictops cf. illuminatus
Lillegraven 1969
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14 specimens | |||||||||
UALVP 22731-22743 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Cimolestidae
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Cimolestes stirtoni
Clemens 1973
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2 specimens | |||||||||
UALVP 22752-22752 | ||||||||||
Cimolestes cf. incisus
Marsh 1889
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4 specimens | |||||||||
UALVP 22745-22748 | ||||||||||
Cimolestes cf. propalaeoryctes
Lillegraven 1969
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2 specimens | |||||||||
recombined as Scollardius propalaeoryctes | ||||||||||
UALVP 22749-22750 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Zhelestidae
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Alostera saskatchewanensis n. gen., n. sp.
Fox 1989
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5 specimens | |||||||||
UALVP 22753-22757 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Neoplagiaulacidae
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Mesodma formosa
(Marsh 1889)
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10 specimens | |||||||||
UALVP 22653-22662 | ||||||||||
Mesodma cf. thompsoni
Clemens 1964
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4 specimens | |||||||||
UALVP 22663-22666 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Cimolodontidae
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? Cimolodon sp.
Marsh 1889
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3 specimens | |||||||||
UALVP 22670-22672 | ||||||||||
Cimolodon nitidus
Marsh 1889
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3 specimens | |||||||||
UALVP 22667-22669 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Cimolomyidae
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Meniscoessus robustus
(Marsh 1889)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
UALVP 22673-22674 | ||||||||||
Essonodon sp.
Simpson 1927
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1 specimen | |||||||||
UALVP 22675 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Multituberculata
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Paracimexomys priscus
(Lillegraven 1969)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
UALVP 22676-22677 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Coniophis sp.
Marsh 1892
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nomen dubium belonging to Serpentes | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Lacertilia
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Lacertilia indet.
Owen 1842
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Reptilia
- Globauridae
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? Contogenys sp.
Estes 1969
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Reptilia
- Chamopsiidae
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Haptosphenus placodon
Estes 1964
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Gao and Fox 1996 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
UALVP 29771, 29870 (partial mandible) | ||||||||||
Chamops segnis
Marsh 1892
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4 specimens | |||||||||
Partial maxilla (UALVP 29728) and three partial dentaries (UALVP 29728, 29811-29812) | ||||||||||
Leptochamops denticulatus
(Gilmore 1928)
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Meniscognathus altmani
Estes 1964
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Gao and Fox 1996 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
UALVP 29833 (partial maxilla) | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Paraderma bogerti
Estes 1964
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Gao and Fox 1996 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
UALVP 29846 (dentary), 33387 (dorsal vertebra) | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Anguidae
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? Odaxosaurus piger
(Gilmore 1928)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
= Odaxosaurus piger
Gilmore 1928
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Gao and Fox 1996 | |||||||||
UALVP 33382 (maxilla) | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Parasaniwa wyomingensis
Gilmore 1928
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4 specimens | |||||||||
UALVP 33347 (premaxilla), 33348 (maxilla), 33349 (dentary), 33350 (dorsal vertebra) | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
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Chelonia indet.
(Latreille 1800)
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synonym of Testudines | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionyx sp.
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809
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Reptilia
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Champsosaurus sp.
Cope 1876
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Reptilia
- Crocodilia
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Crocodilia indet.
Owen 1842
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spelled with current rank as Crocodylia | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Theropoda
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Carnosauria indet.
Huene 1920
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Coelurosauria indet.
(Huene 1914)
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? Aves indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Hadrosauridae indet.
Cope 1869
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Reptilia
- Ceratopsidae
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Ceratopsidae indet.
Marsh 1888
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Reptilia
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Ankylosauria indet.
Osborn 1923
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Canada | State/province: | Saskatchewan |
Coordinates: | 49.3° North, 108.4° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 56.3° North, 80.8° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 | *Epoch: | Senonian |
Key time interval: | Lancian | ||
Age range of interval: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Frenchman | ||||
Local section: | Cypress Hills | Local bed: | 1 | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: 25 m below the Ferris (= No. 1) coal seam |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | gray,green poorly lithified sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "...a poorly cemented sandstone having the dark grayish-green color..." | |
Environment: | coarse channel fill |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Degree of concentration: | concentrated |
Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Fragmentation: | occasional |
Spatial resolution: | allochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | bulk,surface (float),sieve,field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis | ||
Collectors: | P. Johnston & R. Fox | Collection dates: | 1979 |
Taxonomic list comments:25 m below K-T boundary (Ferris Coal) |
Metadata
Also known as: | UALVP | ||
Database number: | 14655 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, P. Mannion, M. Carrano, R. Benson | Enterer: | J. Alroy, P. Mannion, M. Carrano, R. Benson |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2013-06-18 15:54:02 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
1535. | R. C. Fox. 1989. The Wounded Knee local fauna and mammalian evolution near the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, Saskatchewan, Canada. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 208(1-3):11-59 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
19636 | J. Alroy. 2007. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates and so forth. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
41188 | R. C. Fox. 1997. Late Cretaceous and Paleocene mammals, Cypress Hills region, Saskatchewan, and mammalian evolution across the Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary. In L. McKenzie-McAnally (ed.), Canadian Paleontology Conference VII, Saskatoon. Field Trip Guidebook No. 6: Upper Cretaceous and Tertiary Stratigraphy and Paleontology of Southern Saskatchewan. Geological Association of Canada 70-85 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
37933 | K. -Q. Gao and R. C. Fox. 1996. Taxonomy and evolution of Late Cretaceous lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from western Canada. Bulletin of the Carnegie Museum of natural History 33:1-107 [R. Benson/R. Benson] | |
42675 | J. D. Gardner. 2000. Albanerpetontid amphibians from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian and Maastrichtian) of North America. Geodiversitas 22(3):349-388 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
42825 | J. D. Gardner. 2003. Revision of Habrosaurus Gilmore (Caudata; Sirenidae) and relationships among sirenid salamanders. Palaeontology 46(6):1089-1122 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano] | |
3310 | J. E. Storer. 1991. The mammals of the Gryde Local Fauna, Frenchman Formation (Maastrichtian: Lancian), Saskatchewan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 11(3):350-369 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |