Fish Scale Marker Bed (Cretaceous to of Canada)

Also known as ETE Locality 1612

Where: Alberta, Canada (52.0° N, 118.0° W: paleocoordinates 53.1° N, 70.7° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Shaftesbury Formation, Albian to Albian (113.0 - 93.9 Ma)

• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: . radiometric intage_min

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; silty sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: marine, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0
• ETE rock type adj: siltstone, ETE lithology comments: 0

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 478, 479, 483, 482, 121, 456, ; ETE museum list:

Primary reference: D. A. Leckie, C. Singh, J. Bloch, M. Wilson, and J. Wall. 1992. An anoxic event at the Albian-Cenomanian boundary: the Fish Scale Marker Bed, northern Alberta, Canada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 92:139-166 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22733: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 29.05.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Enchodontiformes indet.
Enchodontiformes indet.
ETE occurrence; species: Enchodontiformes
Actinopteri
 Elopiformes - Osmeroididae
Osmeroides transversus
 Ichthyodectiformes - Ichthyodectidae
Ichthyodectidae indet.
Ichthyodectidae indet. Crook 1892
ETE occurrence; species: Ichthyodectidae