PBDB Collection

Wendy's Site, RTMP L1127: Middle Campanian, Canada

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia - Cardiida - Sphaeriidae

	Pisidiidae indet. Gray 1857	Peng et al. 2001
Bivalvia - Unionida - Unionidae

	Unionidae indet. Rafinesque 1820	Peng et al. 2001
Gastropoda

	Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795	Peng et al. 2001
Actinopteri

	Holostei informal indet. A	Peng et al. 2001	139 elements

	Holostei informal indet. B	Peng et al. 2001	25 elements
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Amiidae

	Amiidae indet. Huxley 1861	Peng et al. 2001	11 elements
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae

	Atractosteus occidentalis (Leidy 1856)	Peng et al. 2001	404 elements
Actinopteri - Aspidorhynchiformes - Aspidorhynchidae

	Belonostomus longirostris (Lambe 1902)	Peng et al. 2001	11 elements
Actinopteri

	Teleostei informal indet. D	Peng et al. 2001	28 elements

	Teleostei indet. Müller 1846	Peng et al. 2001	225 elements
Actinopteri - Elopiformes - Phyllodontidae

	Paralbula casei Estes 1969	Peng et al. 2001	35 elements
Actinopteri - Esociformes - Esocidae

	Estesesox foxi Wilson et al. 1992	Peng et al. 2001	15 elements
Reptilia - Chamopsiidae

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

	cf. Palaeosaniwa canadensis Gilmore 1928	Peng et al. 2001	7 specimens

	Colpodontosaurus cf. cracens Estes 1964	Peng et al. 2001	3 specimens
Reptilia - Anguidae

	cf. Odaxosaurus piger (Gilmore 1928)	Peng et al. 2001	33 specimens
Reptilia

	Champsosaurus sp. Cope 1876	Peng et al. 2001	214 specimens
Reptilia - Tyrannosauridae

	Tyrannosauridae indet. Osborn 1906	Peng et al. 2001	3 specimens
Reptilia

	Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758	Peng et al. 2001	3 specimens
Reptilia - Dromaeosauridae

	Aves indet. (Linnaeus 1758)	Currie and Goy 2008	1 specimen
	TMP 1989.103.0025
	= Richardoestesia isosceles Sankey 2001	Larson and Currie 2013

	Richardoestesia cf. gilmorei Currie et al. 1990	Larson and Currie 2013	1 specimen
	TMP 1987.080.0035

	Saurornitholestes langstoni Sues 1978	Peng et al. 2001	7 specimens
Reptilia

	Paronychodon lacustris Cope 1876	Peng et al. 2001	2 specimens
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae

	Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869	Peng et al. 2001	61 specimens
Reptilia - Ceratopsidae

	Ceratopsidae indet. Marsh 1888	Peng et al. 2001	8 specimens
Reptilia - Pachycephalosauridae

	Pachycephalosauridae indet. Sternberg 1945	Peng et al. 2001	1 specimen
Reptilia - Crocodylia

	Leidyosuchus sp. Lambe 1907	Peng et al. 2001	73 specimens
	= Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842	Alroy 2007
Reptilia

	Alligatorinae indet. Cuvier 1807	Peng et al. 2001	9 specimens
Reptilia - Testudines - Nanhsiungchelyidae

	Basilemys sp. Hay 1902	Peng et al. 2001	2 specimens
Reptilia - Testudines - Adocidae

	Adocus sp. Cope 1868	Peng et al. 2001	8 specimens
Reptilia - Testudines - Chelydridae

	Chelydridae indet. Swainson 1839	Peng et al. 2001	5 specimens
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae

	Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825	Peng et al. 2001	14 specimens
Reptilia - Baenidae

	Baenidae indet. Cope 1882	Peng et al. 2001	11 specimens
Mammalia - Multituberculata

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

	Meniscoessus major (Russell 1936)	Brinkman et al. 2004	1 specimen
Mammalia

	Eutheria indet. (Huxley 1880)	Brinkman et al. 2004	1 specimen
Mammalia - Alphadontidae

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

	Peradectidae indet. Crochet 1979	Brinkman et al. 2004	1 specimen
Mammalia - Pediomyidae

	Pediomys sp. Marsh 1889	Brinkman et al. 2004	1 specimen
	= Pediomyidae indet. Simpson 1927	Alroy 2007
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae

	Albanerpeton galaktion Fox and Naylor 1982		1 specimen
	RTMP 96.78.186

	Albanerpeton nexuosus Estes 1981		1 specimen
	RTMP 96.78.152

	Albanerpeton gracilis Gardner 2000		63 specimens
	RTMP 96.78.187-96.78.197
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Batrachosauroididae

	Opisthotriton kayi Auffenberg 1961	Peng et al. 2001	38 specimens
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela

	Scapherpeton tectum Cope 1876	Peng et al. 2001	216 specimens
Amphibia - Temnospondyli

	Anura indet. (Fischer von Waldheim 1813)	Peng et al. 2001	75 specimens
Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Hemiscylliidae

	Chiloscyllium missouriense Case 1979	Peng et al. 2001	1 element
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae

	Myledaphus bipartitus Cope 1876	Peng et al. 2001	9 elements
unclassified

	Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866	Peng et al. 2001
	"carbonaceous plant debris"
see common names

Geography

Country:	Canada	State/province:	Alberta
Coordinates:	49.1° North, 110.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	56.4° North, 76.5° 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:	Oldman	Member:	Lower
Stratigraphic resolution:	bed
Stratigraphy comments: lower unit of formation; about 10 m above Taber Coal Zone

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	tabular argillaceous,silty sandstone
Secondary lithology:	deformed bedding,ferruginous siltstone
Includes fossils?	Y
Lithology description: "tabular, flat-bedded, carbonaceous, clayey, silty sandstone. The host lithosome is about 75 cm thick, and fines upward into siltstone, featuring contorted structure and local iron staining."
Environment:	crevasse splay

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:	occasional
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:	WS, Pinhorn Ranch
Database number:	45566
Authorizer:	M. Carrano, J. Alroy	Enterer:	M. Carrano, J. Alroy
Modifier:	M. Carrano	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2004-11-10 08:39:41	Last modified:	2021-10-29 09:46:41
Access level:	the public	Released:	2004-11-10 08:39:41
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]
52038		P. J. Currie and C. Goy. 2008. The first serrated bird tooth. In J. T. Sankey & S. Baszio (ed.), Vertebrate Microfossil Assemblages: Their Role in Paleoecology and Paleobiogeography 159-165 [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]
48570		D. W. Larson and P. J. Currie. 2013. Multivariate analyses of small theropod dinosaur teeth and implications for paleoecological turnover through time. PLoS ONE 8(1):e54329:1-14 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/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]