Collishaw Point bird site, Hornby Island (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.6° N, 124.7° W: paleocoordinates 56.1° N, 94.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Northumberland Formation (Nanaimo Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: submarine fan; silty mudstone

• Deepwater conditions in the distal parts of large submarine fan (turbidite) complexes
• silty mudstones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Dyke, X. Wang, and G. Kaiser. 2011. Large fossil birds from a Late Cretaceous marine turbidite sequence on Hornby Island (British Columbia). Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 48:1489-1496 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 132556: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 22.08.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Show authors, comments, and common names
Reptilia
 Pterosauria - Azhdarchidae
? Azhdarchidae indet.
? Azhdarchidae indet. pterosaur
RBCM.EH.2009.019.0001A (humerus)
Aves
 Enantiornithes -
Enantiornithes indet.
Enantiornithes indet. bird
TMP 1999.081.0001 (associated L femur & incomplete distal end & portions of fibula and proximal tibiotarsus)
 Ornithurae -
Ornithurae indet.
Ornithurae indet. bird
TMP 1999.081.0001 (R carpometacarpus); RBCM.EH 2008.011.01120 (incomplete R coracoid) was also originally described from this locality, but McLachlan et al. (2017) reported that it came from a nearby locality instead and is now the type specimen of Maaqwi cascadensis