Also known as Wapuskanectes betsynichollsae type locality
Where: Alberta, Canada (57.0° N, 111.7° W: paleocoordinates 56.4° N, 57.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Wabiskaw Member (Clearwater Formation), Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)
• Lower Albian age based on angiosperm palynomorphs and Foraminifera
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; medium, glauconitic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Syncrude, Canada in ?1992-2006; reposited in the TMP
Collection methods: quarrying
• Oil sand mining
Primary reference: P. S. Druckenmiller and A. P. Russell. 2006. A new elasmosaurid plesiosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Lower Cretaceous Clearwater Formation, Northeastern Alberta, Canada. Paludicola 5(4):184-199 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 117448: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 20.09.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Wapuskanectes betsynichollsae n. gen. n. sp.
Wapuskanectes betsynichollsae n. gen. n. sp. Druckenmiller and Russell 2006 elasmosaur TMP 98.49.02 (holotype)
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