PBDB Collection

Pinhorn Range #2, RTMP L1124: Middle Campanian, Canada

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes - Squatinidae

	Squatina hassei Leriche 1929	Peng et al. 2001	8 elements
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Archaeolamnidae

	Archaeolamna kopingensis (Davis 1890)	Peng et al. 2001	10 elements
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Carchariidae

	Synodontaspis hardingi (Cappetta and Case 1975)	Peng et al. 2001	79 elements
Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Hemiscylliidae

	Chiloscyllium missouriense Case 1979	Peng et al. 2001	6 elements
Chondrichthyes - Synechodontiformes - Palaeospinacidae

	Synechodus turneri Case 1987	Peng et al. 2001	1 element
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae

	Myledaphus bipartitus Cope 1876	Peng et al. 2001	2164 elements

	Rhinobatos casieri Herman 1977	Peng et al. 2001	9 elements
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae

	Ischyrhiza mira Leidy 1856	Peng et al. 2001	16 elements
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae

	Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834	Peng et al. 2001	15 elements
Acipenseriformes - Acipenseridae

	Acipenseridae indet. Bonaparte 1831	Peng et al. 2001	25 elements
Actinopteri

	Holostei informal indet. A	Peng et al. 2001	22 elements

	Holostei informal indet. B	Peng et al. 2001	166 elements
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae

	Atractosteus occidentalis (Leidy 1856)	Peng et al. 2001	834 elements
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Amiidae

	Amiidae indet. Huxley 1861	Peng et al. 2001	17 elements
Actinopteri

	Teleostei informal indet. D	Peng et al. 2001	25 elements

	Teleostei indet. Müller 1846	Peng et al. 2001	265 elements
Actinopteri - Albuliformes - Albulidae

	Coriops amnicolus Estes 1969	Peng et al. 2001	5 elements
Actinopteri - Elopiformes - Phyllodontidae

	Phyllodontinae indet. Darteville and Casier 1949	Peng et al. 2001	29 elements

	Paralbula casei Estes 1969	Peng et al. 2001	1987 elements
Actinopteri - Esociformes - Esocidae

	Estesesox foxi Wilson et al. 1992	Peng et al. 2001	7 elements
Actinopteri - Aspidorhynchiformes - Aspidorhynchidae

	Belonostomus longirostris (Lambe 1902)	Peng et al. 2001	160 elements
Amphibia - Temnospondyli

	Anura indet. (Fischer von Waldheim 1813)	Peng et al. 2001	31 specimens
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela

	Scapherpeton tectum Cope 1876	Peng et al. 2001	30 specimens
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Batrachosauroididae

	Opisthotriton kayi Auffenberg 1961	Peng et al. 2001	66 specimens
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae

	Albanerpetontidae indet. Fox and Naylor 1982		7 specimens
	RTMP 96.78.100
	= Albanerpeton sp. Estes and Hoffstetter 1976	Peng et al. 2001
Mammalia - Alphadontidae

	Turgidodon russelli (Fox 1979)	Brinkman et al. 2004	2 specimens
Mammalia - Cimolestidae

	Cimolestes sp. Marsh 1889	Brinkman et al. 2004	1 specimen
Mammalia - Multituberculata

	Multituberculata indet. Cope 1884	Brinkman et al. 2004	2 specimens
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Cimolomyidae

	Cimolomys clarki Sahni 1972	Brinkman et al. 2004	1 specimen

	Meniscoessus major (Russell 1936)	Brinkman et al. 2004	3 specimens
Reptilia

	Champsosaurus sp. Cope 1876	Peng et al. 2001	213 specimens
Reptilia - Ceratopsidae

	Ceratopsidae indet. Marsh 1888	Peng et al. 2001	12 specimens
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae

	Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869	Peng et al. 2001	263 specimens
Reptilia - Nodosauridae

	Nodosauridae indet. Marsh 1890	Peng et al. 2001	2 specimens
Reptilia - Ankylosauridae

	Ankylosauridae indet. Brown 1908	Peng et al. 2001	6 specimens
Reptilia - Tyrannosauridae

	Tyrannosauridae indet. Osborn 1906	Peng et al. 2001	9 specimens
Reptilia

	Paronychodon lacustris Cope 1876	Peng et al. 2001	1 specimen
Reptilia - Dromaeosauridae

	Saurornitholestes langstoni Sues 1978	Peng et al. 2001	18 specimens

	Richardoestesia gilmorei Currie et al. 1990	Peng et al. 2001	3 specimens
Reptilia - Crocodylia

	Leidyosuchus sp. Lambe 1907	Peng et al. 2001	190 specimens
	= Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842	Alroy 2007
Reptilia

	Alligatorinae indet. Cuvier 1807	Peng et al. 2001	15 specimens
Reptilia - Chamopsiidae

	Leptochamops sp. Estes 1964	Peng et al. 2001	2 specimens
Reptilia

	cf. Palaeosaniwa canadensis Gilmore 1928	Peng et al. 2001	3 specimens
Reptilia - Helodermatidae

	Helodermatidae indet. Gray 1837	Peng et al. 2001	6 specimens
Reptilia - Testudines - Chelydridae

	Chelydridae indet. Swainson 1839	Peng et al. 2001	1 specimen
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae

	Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825	Peng et al. 2001	7 specimens
Reptilia - Testudines - Adocidae

	Adocus sp. Cope 1868	Peng et al. 2001	3 specimens
Reptilia - Baenidae

	Baenidae indet. Cope 1882	Peng et al. 2001	2 specimens
Bivalvia

	Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758	Peng et al. 2001
	"unidentified marine clams"
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae

	Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789	Peng et al. 2001
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae

	Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758	Peng et al. 2001
see common names

Geography

Country:	Canada	State/province:	Alberta
Coordinates:	49.1° North, 110.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	56.4° North, 76.4° West
Basis of coordinate:	stated in text
Geographic resolution:	small collection

Time

Period:	Cretaceous	Epoch:	Late Cretaceous
Stage:	Campanian	10 m.y. bin:	Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:	Middle Campanian
Age range of interval:	83.6 - 72.1 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Geological group:	Belly River	Formation:	Foremost
Stratigraphic resolution:	bed
Stratigraphy comments: upper unit of formation

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	silty sandstone
Secondary lithology:	planar lamination "shale"
Includes fossils?	Y
Lithology description: "base of a 3.5 m thick sandstone, which comprises silty sand and finely laminated shales. The host lithosome sits with sharp contact on the fourth parasequence of the middle (mudstone) succession."
Environment:	shoreface

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Lagerst�tten type:	concentrate
Degree of concentration:	concentrated
Size of fossils:	mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:	good
Disassociated major elements:	many
Disassociated minor elements:	many
Size sorting:	well
Fragmentation:	frequent
Spatial resolution:	parautochthonous

Collection methods and comments

Collection methods:	bulk,sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:	paleoecologic analysis
Museum repositories:	TMP

Metadata

Also known as:	PHR-2
Database number:	45561
Authorizer:	M. Carrano, J. Alroy	Enterer:	M. Carrano, J. Alroy
Modifier:	M. Carrano	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2004-11-09 14:35:23	Last modified:	2023-07-14 14:06:17
Access level:	the public	Released:	2004-11-09 14:35:23
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

Secondary references:

19636		J. Alroy. 2007. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates and so forth. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
11931	ETE	D. B. Brinkman, A. P. Russell, D. A. Eberth and J. Peng. 2004. Vertebrate palaeocommunities of the lower Judith River Group (Campanian) of southeastern Alberta, Canada, as interpreted from vertebrate microfossil assemblages. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 213:295-313 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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]
64015		J. D. Gardner, C. M. Redman, and R. L. Cifelli. 2016. The hopping dead: Late Cretaceous frogs from the middle-late Campanian (Judithian) of western North America. Fossil Imprint 72(1-2):78-107 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/M. Carrano]
11964	ETE	J. Peng, A. P. Russell, and D. B. Brinkman. 2001. Vertebrate microsite assemblages (exclusive of mammals) from the Foremost and Oldman Formations of the Judith River Group (Campanian) of southeastern Alberta: an illustrated guide. Provincial Museum of Alberta, Natural History Occasional Paper 25:1-54 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]