Drumheller concretion: Late Campanian, Canada
collected by Roy L. Fowler 1939

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Diptera
Cretaphormia fowleri n. gen., n. sp. McAlpine 1970
1 specimen
puparia
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Alberta
Coordinates: 51.4° North, 112.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:59.0° North, 76.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Campanian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 7
Key time interval: Late Campanian
Age range of interval: 83.6 - 72.1 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Edmonton Formation:Horseshoe Canyon
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Given as "Edmonton Formation" (now group), but most likely the lower part of the Horseshoe Canyon Formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified ironstone
Environment:marginal marine indet. Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Geology comments: Possible environments range from swamp to delta to estuarine.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Roy L. Fowler Collection dates:1939
Collection method comments: Later given to Canadian National Collection
Metadata
Database number:124953
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2012-03-01 07:19:46 Last modified:2014-08-08 12:01:20
Access level:the public Released:2012-03-01 07:19:46
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
40503. J. F. McAlpine. 1970. First record of calypterate flies in the Mesozoic Era (Diptera: Calliphoridae). The Canadian Entomologist 102:342-346 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]