Where: Alberta, Canada (55.7° N, 117.6° W: paleocoordinates 59.5° N, 73.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Vimy Member (Kaskapau Formation), Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• At Watino, Cretaceous sandstone is exposed at river level and the bone bed material is known only from loose blocks in heavily slumped debris. The nearest well-exposed section is at Hunting Creek, located 8 km NNE of Watino, where the upper part of the Dunvegan Formation and lower part of the overlying Kaskapau Formation are exposed. Using sea-level as a datum, the top of the Dunvegan Formation can be traced southward from Erin Lodge on the Peace River, to Hunting Creek near the Smoky River, and then projected south to Watino where the Dunvegan-Kaskapau contact is predicted to lie about 70 m above the level of the Smoky River. Therefore, rocks exposed near water level in the vicinity of Watino are probably part of the Dunvegan Formation, while those above, including the sediments with the fossil material, are part of the Kaskapau Formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; poorly lithified, phosphatic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: chemical, mechanical, acetic
• Repository: Laboratory for Vertebrate Paleontology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (UALVP)
Primary reference: R. C. Fox. 1984. lchthyornis (Aves) from the early Turonian (Late Cretaceous) of Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 21:258-260 [M. Vavrek/M. Vavrek]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 136242: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Sharon McMullen on 24.11.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham and Josh Mordaunt
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Carcharias aff. striatula" = Eostriatolamia striatula1, Odontaspis watinensis n. sp.1, Johnlongia parvidens1
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Ichthyornis sp. Marsh 1872 bird | |
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