Verdigris Coulee (UA-MR-12) (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as UALVP MR-12

Where: Alberta, Canada (49.1° N, 111.8° W: paleocoordinates 54.4° N, 73.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Deadhorse Coulee Member (Milk River Formation), Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• Upper part of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: R. C. Fox. 1980. Picopsis pattersoni, n.gen. and sp., an unusual therian from the Upper Cretaceous of Alberta, and the classification of primitive tribosphenic mammals. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 17:1489 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14427: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae
Albanerpeton nexuosus Estes 1981 tetrapod
Albanerpeton galaktion Fox and Naylor 1982 tetrapod
Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Picopsidae
cf. Picopsis sp. Fox 1980 mammal