Boyne Member 3 Vermilion River Formation (Cretaceous of Canada)
Where: Manitoba, Canada (52.3° N, 101.3° W: paleocoordinates 57.0° N, 62.8° W)
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When: Boyne Member (Vermilion River Formation), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; gray, white, yellow, calcareous shale
• The Boyne Member is a yellowish white or dark gray calcareous shale, which in gross aspect resembles the Smoky Hill Chalk member of the Niobara Formation in Kansas.
Primary reference: D. Bardack. 1968. Fossil vertebrates from the marine Cretaceous of Manitoba. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 5:145-153 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36742: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 12.02.2004
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