Also known as Anderson River
Where: Northwest Territories, Canada (69.4° N, 128.1° W: paleocoordinates 78.2° N, 69.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Brown Bed Member, Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; poorly lithified, bentonitic, concretionary, brown shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by D. Russell in 1965
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: D. A. Russell. 1967. Cretaceous vertebrates from the Anderson River N. W. T. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 4(1):21-38 [M. Carrano/H. Street/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 106328: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 10.03.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Platecarpus ictericus" = Platecarpus tympaniticus
"Platecarpus ictericus" = Platecarpus tympaniticus Cope 1869 mosasaur NMC No. 10429 fragments of skull and cervical vertebrae; 10480, maxillary and premaxillary fragments
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