Also known as LD, Saskatchewan Landing Provincial Park
Where: Saskatchewan, Canada (50.7° N, 108.1° W: paleocoordinates 57.2° N, 72.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Dinosaur Park Formation (Belly River Group), Middle Campanian to Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: channel lag; lenticular, tabular, graded sandstone and brown, gray mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: trace
Collected by N. Yurchyshyn, T. Tokaryk, D. Taylor, J. Storer, G. Schutte, W. Long, M. Caldwell, H. Larsson in 1975, 1990, 1992, 2002, 2012, 2015
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
Primary reference: M. M. Gilbert, E. L. Bamforth, L. A. Buatois and R. W. Renaut. 2018. Paleoecology and sedimentology of a vertebrate microfossil assemblage from the easternmost Dinosaur Park Formation (Late Cretaceous, Upper Campanian,) Saskatchewan, Canada: reconstructing diversity in a coastal ecosystem. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 495:227-244 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 229975: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.04.2023
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Osteichthyes indet. Huxley 1880 bony fish | |
Acipenser sp. Linnaeus 1758 sturgeon | |
Reptilia | |
Plesiosauria indet. plesiosaur | |
Elasmosauridae indet. Cope 1869 elasmosaur | |
Ornithischia indet. Seeley 1888 ornithischian | |
Ankylosauridae indet. Brown 1908 ankylosaurid | |
Ceratopsidae indet. Marsh 1888 ceratopsid | |
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid | |
Hypsilophodontidae indet. hypsilophodontid | |
Dromaeosaurus albertensis Matthew and Brown 1922 maniraptoran | |
Troodontidae indet. Gilmore 1924 maniraptoran | |
Aves | |
Hesperornithiformes indet. Fürbringer 1888 bird | |
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Reptilia | |
cf. Gorgosaurus sp. Lambe 1914 tyrannosaurid | |
Leidyosuchus sp. Lambe 1907 crocodilian | |
Champsosaurus sp. Cope 1876 choristodere | |
Baenidae indet. Cope 1882 turtle | |
Chelydridae indet. Swainson 1839 turtle | |
Adocidae indet. Cope 1869 turtle | |
cf. Aspideretoides sp. Gardner et al. 1995 turtle | |
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle | |
Palaeosaniwa sp. Gilmore 1928 squamates | |
Mammalia | |
Meniscoessus sp. Cope 1882 multituberculate | |
Amphibia | |
Albanerpeton sp. Estes and Hoffstetter 1976 tetrapod | |
Opisthotriton kayi Auffenberg 1961 salamander | |
Scapherpeton tectum Cope 1876 salamander
Lisserpeton bairdi Estes 1965 salamander | |
Anura indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1813 frog | |
Actinopteri | |
Belonostomus longirostris Lambe 1902 | |
Teleostei indet. Müller 1846 | |
cf. Ostariostoma sp. Schaeffer 1949 | |
cf. Paratarpon sp. Bardack 1970 | |
cf. Paralbula sp. Blake 1940 | |
Enchodus sp. Agassiz 1835 | |
cf. Esocoidea indet. Bleeker 1859 | |
Horseshoeichthys sp. Newbrey et al. 2010
Diplomystus sp. Cope 1877 | |
cf. Cretophareodus sp. Lim 1996 arowana | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Meristodonoides montanensis Case 1978 elasmobranch | |
"Cretorectolobus olsoni" = Cretorectolobus olsoni, "Eucrossorhinus microcuspidatus" = Cretorectolobus olsoni
"Cretorectolobus olsoni" = Cretorectolobus olsoni Case 1978 wobbegong
"Eucrossorhinus microcuspidatus" = Cretorectolobus olsoni Case 1978 wobbegong | |
Squalicorax sp. Whitley 1939 crow shark | |
Archaeolamna kopingensis Davis 1890 mackerel shark | |
Carcharias steineri sand shark | |
Myledaphus bipartitus Cope 1876 guitarfish | |