Sage Creek Provincial Grazing Reserve (TMP) (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Near Onefour

Where: Alberta, Canada (49.1° N, 110.5° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 59.2° N, 65.9° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Dinosaur Park Formation (Belly River Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.6 - 72.2 Ma)

• From a stratum immediately overlying the basalmost coal bed of the Lethbridge Coal

•Zone in the Dinosaur Park Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; sandstone

• laterally continuous, decimetre-thick sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Donna Sloan & Wendy Sloboda in 1990-2012; reposited in the TMP

Primary reference: D. B. Brinkman, M. Densmore, M. Rabi, M. J. Ryan, and D. C. Evans. 2015. Marine turtles from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 52:581-589 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 188996: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 25.09.2017

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae
Myledaphus sp. Cope 1876 guitarfish
Reptilia
 Testudines -
Kimurachelys slobodae Brinkman et al. 2015 sea turtle
TMP 2010.85.17 - holotype
 Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Fluvionectes sloanae n. gen. n. sp.
Fluvionectes sloanae n. gen. n. sp. Campbell et al. 2021 elasmosaur
TMP 2009.37.68