RTMP BB 105: Middle Campanian, Canada
collected by D. Brinkman
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Cuvier 1795
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Bivalvia
- Unionida
- Unionidae
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Unionidae indet.
Rafinesque 1820
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Chondrichthyes
- Rajiformes
- Rhinobatidae
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Myledaphus bipartitus
Cope 1876
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20 elements | |||||||||
Osteichthyes
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Osteichthyes informal indet. A
Huxley 1880
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212 elements | |||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
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Anura indet.
(Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
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89 specimens | |||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Batrachosauroididae
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Opisthotriton kayi
Auffenberg 1961
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61 specimens | |||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Urodela
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Scapherpeton tectum
Cope 1876
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531 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
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Mammalia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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26 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Multituberculata
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Multituberculata indet.
Cope 1884
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Brinkman et al. 1998 | 35 specimens | ||||||||
Mammalia
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Eutheria indet.
(Huxley 1880)
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Brinkman et al. 1998 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
Metatheria indet.
(Huxley 1880)
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Brinkman et al. 1998 | 14 specimens | ||||||||
Reptilia
- Baenidae
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Baenidae indet.
Cope 1882
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Chelydridae
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Chelydridae indet.
Swainson 1839
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12 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Aspideretes sp.
Hay 1904
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14 specimens | |||||||||
= Trionychinae indet.
Gray 1825
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Alroy 2007 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Lacertilia
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Lacertilia indet.
Owen 1842
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35 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Leidyosuchus canadensis
Lambe 1907
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31 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Krokolithidae
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Krokolithes sp.
Hirsch 1985
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Zelenitsky and Sloboda 2005 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Ankylosauria indet.
Osborn 1923
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11 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Pachycephalosauridae
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Pachycephalosauridae indet.
Sternberg 1945
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Brinkman et al. 1998 | 9 specimens | ||||||||
Reptilia
- Ceratopsidae
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Ceratopsidae indet.
Marsh 1888
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Brinkman et al. 1998 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Reptilia
- Spheroolithidae
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Spheroolithus albertensis
Zelenitsky and Hills 1997
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Zelenitsky and Sloboda 2005 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Hadrosauridae indet.
Cope 1869
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768 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Thescelosaurus cf. neglectus
Gilmore 1913
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4 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Troodontidae
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Troodon formosus
Leidy 1856
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8 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Dromaeosauridae
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cf. Dromaeosauridae indet.
Colbert and Russell 1969
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Richardoestesia sp.
Currie et al. 1990
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Brinkman et al. 1998 | 9 specimens | ||||||||
Saurornitholestes langstoni
Sues 1978
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30 specimens | |||||||||
Dromaeosaurus sp.
Matthew and Brown 1922
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Brinkman et al. 1998 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
Reptilia
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Paronychodon sp.
Cope 1876
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Brinkman et al. 1998 | 6 specimens | ||||||||
? Aves indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Brinkman et al. 1998 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
Reptilia
- Tyrannosauridae
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Tyrannosauridae indet.
Osborn 1906
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8 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Elongatoolithidae
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Continuoolithus canadensis
Zelenitsky et al. 1996
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Zelenitsky and Sloboda 2005 | |||||||||
Porituberoolithus warnerensis
Zelenitsky et al. 1996
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Zelenitsky and Sloboda 2005 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Champsosaurus natator
Parks 1933
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13 specimens | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
- Lepisosteidae
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Lepisosteus sp.
Agassiz 1843
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46 elements | |||||||||
may be same as Atractosteus occidentalis in Table 1? | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Amiiformes
- Amiidae
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Kindleia sp.
Jordan 1927
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11 elements | |||||||||
synonym of Cyclurus | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
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Teleostei informal indet. D
Müller 1846
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76 elements | |||||||||
Teleostei indet.
Müller 1846
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51 elements | |||||||||
"gen. unident." | ||||||||||
Teleostei informal indet. A
Müller 1846
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Eberth and Brinkman 1997 | 5 elements | ||||||||
Teleostei informal indet. N
Müller 1846
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Eberth and Brinkman 1997 | 3 elements | ||||||||
Actinopteri
- Salmoniformes
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Esocoidea indet.
Bleeker 1859
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16 elements | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Elopiformes
- Phyllodontidae
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Paralbula casei
Estes 1969
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9 elements | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Albuliformes
- Albulidae
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Coriops amnicolus
Estes 1969
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47 elements | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
Coordinates: | 50.8° North, 111.5° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 58.1° North, 76.1° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Altitude: | 648 meters | ||
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: | 83.50000 - 70.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Belly River | Formation: | Oldman | ||
Local section: | DPP-Brinkman | Local bed: | -17.5 m | ||
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Microvertebrate sites of Brinkman (1990) are "...placed in stratigraphic sequence by reference to a disconformity located about sixty meters below the base of the Lethbridge Coal (Eberth, 1990). The stratigraphic position of each site is expressed in terms of meteres above or below the disconformity (Fig. 2, Brinkman, 1990)." |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | tabular,"cross stratification",lag,pebbly,intraclastic silty sandstone |
Lithology description: "Microfossils occur in two stacked, poorly-sorted and graded tabular units of silty sandstone...the lowermost unit is 75 cm thick. Well-rounded, platy to oval mudstones intraclasts, some as large as 7 cm in their maximum dimensions, are abundant throughout the unit...Disarticulated unionid valves and gastropod shells are present. The larger unionids are rare and are restricted to the lower portion of the unit while the gastropods are abundant throughout the deposit." (Eberth 1990) | |
Environment: | "channel" |
Glacial or sequence phase: | transgressive |
Geology comments: Characterized as in-channel, coastal plain. Facies association = trough cross-stratified sandstones. Upper flow-regime, tractional plane beds fromed during flood stage. Lag deposits, or plane bed deposits that show horizontal-planar stratification, bed thicknesses exceeding single pebble diameters, normal graded or fining upward texture, and matrix-supported clasts. The disconformity in southern Alberta records a Cordilleran uplift event west of the Park. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Degree of concentration: | concentrated |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Disassociated major elements: | some |
Disassociated minor elements: | many |
Size sorting: | poor |
Fragmentation: | occasional |
Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
Spatial resolution: | allochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some macrofossils | ||
Collection methods: | bulk,surface (float),sieve,field collection | ||
Minimum sieve size: | 64.000 | Maximum sieve size: | 81.000 |
Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis | ||
Museum repositories: | TMP | ||
Collectors: | D. Brinkman | ||
Collection method comments: Screenwashed elements were collected using a screen with 9 openings per centimeter. |
Metadata
Also known as: | Dave's II, Bonebed 105, DPP | ||
Database number: | 45240 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, M. Carrano | Enterer: | R. Whatley, J. Alroy, M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2004-10-14 17:47:03 | Last modified: | 2021-09-23 12:18:32 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-10-14 17:47:03 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
5929. | ETE 1710 | D. B. Brinkman. 1990. Paleontology of the Judith River Formation (Campanian) of Dinosaur National Park, Alberta, Canada: evidence from vertebrate microfossil locality. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 78:37-54 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
19636 | J. Alroy. 2007. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates and so forth. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
19348 | ETE | D. B. Brinkman, M. J. Ryan, and D. A. Eberth. 1998. The paleogeographic and stratigraphic distribution of ceratopsids (Ornithischia) in the Upper Judith River Group of western Canada. Palaios 13:160-169 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
16964 | ETE | P. J. Currie. 2005. History of research. In P. J. Currie and E. B. Koppelhus (eds.), Dinosaur Provincial Park: A Spectacular Ancient Ecosystem Revealed. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 3-33 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
5930 | ETE 1711 | D. A. Eberth. 1990. Stratigraphy and sedimentology of vertebrate microfossil sites in the uppermost Judith River Formation (Campanian), Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 78:1-36 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] |
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] | |
9017 | D. A. Eberth and D. B. Brinkman. 1997. Paleoecology of an estuarine, incised-valley fill in the Dinosaur Park Formation (Judith River Group, Upper Cretaceous) of southern Alberta, Canada. Palaios 12:43-58 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
18893 | ETE | D. K. Zelenitsky and W. J. Sloboda. 2005. Eggshells. In P. J. Currie and E. B. Koppelhus (eds.), Dinosaur Provincial Park: A Spectacular Ancient Ecosystem Revealed. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 398-404 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |