Verdigris Coulee Michael's Site (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as TMP accession number 2000.2

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)

• near the base of the Deadhorse Coulee Member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; siltstone

• lenticular muddy siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the TMP

Collection methods: sieve,

• Both surface collected and screen-washed using a screen with 0.85 mm openings

Primary reference: D. B. Brinkman, A. G. Neuman, and J. D. Divay. 2017. Non-marine fishes of the late Santonian Milk River Formation of Alberta, Canada – evidence from vertebrate microfossil localities. Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Paleontology 3:7-46 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 190345: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 05.12.2017, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Rajiformes -
Pseudomyledaphus madseni Kirkland et al. 2013 guitarfish
 Orectolobiformes - Orectolobidae
Orectolobidae indet. Jordan and Fowler 1903 wobbegong
Amphibia
 Caudata - Urodela
Urodela indet. salamander
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825 gar
"Gar scale type 1 and 2
 Amiiformes - Amiidae
Amiinae indet. Bonaparte 1837 bowfin
cf. Melvius sp. Bryant 1987 bowfin
 Teleostei -
Teleostei "indet. O" Müller 1846
"type O"
Teleostei "indet. U-4" Müller 1846
"type U-4"
 Osteoglossiformes -
Wilsonichthys sp. Murray et al. 2016
 Hiodontiformes - Hiodontidae
 Esociformes - Esocidae
Estesesox foxi Wilson et al. 1992
 Acanthomorphata -
"Acanthomorpha indet." = Acanthomorphata
"Acanthomorpha indet." = Acanthomorphata Rosen 1973
 Ostariophysi -
Otophysa "indet. U-3/BvD"
"Teleost U-3/BvD"
 Teleostei -
Elopomorpha indet. Greenwood et al. 1966