TMP NL-4: Early Maastrichtian, Canada
collected by Brinkman 2003

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Batrachosauroididae
3 specimens
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela
9 specimens
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
8 specimens
TMP 2009.139.6
Reptilia - Tyrannosauridae
1 specimen
Reptilia
1 specimen
1 specimen
TMP 2009.139.4
Reptilia - Troodontidae
5 specimens
TMP 2003.34.1
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
59 specimens
Reptilia - Ceratopsidae
17 specimens
Reptilia - Ankylosauridae
1 specimen
TMP 2009.139.4
Reptilia - Testudines - Chelydridae
1 specimen
Mammalia
1 specimen
Actinopteri
106 specimens
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Amiidae
1 specimen
Actinopteri - Salmoniformes
Salmoniformes indet. Bleeker 1859
1 specimen
TMP 2009.139.1
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Alberta
Coordinates: 52.0° North, 112.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:64.1° North, 67.9° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 8
Key time interval: Early Maastrichtian
Age range of interval: 72.1 - 66 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Edmonton Formation:Horseshoe Canyon Member:Morrin/Tolman
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: from Drumheller Marine Tongue, Unit 2

Drumheller Marine Tongue section spans Morrin/Tolman contact zone and has been dated to 70.896+/0.048Ma. For revised age stratigraphy of the Horseshoe Canyon Formation, see Eberth and Braman 2012 and Eberth et al. 2020
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: "brackish water"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Abundance in sediment:abundant
Fragmentation:occasional
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:TMP
Collectors:Brinkman Collection dates:2003
Metadata
Database number:135739
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-11-06 10:47:28 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2012-11-06 10:47:28
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

43426. D. W. Larson, D. B. Brinkman, and P. R. Bell. 2010. Faunal assemblages from the upper Horseshoe Canyon Formation, an early Maastrichtian cool-climate assemblage from Alberta, with special reference to the Albertosaurus sarcophagus bonebed. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 47:1159-1181 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]