MDM Quarry 1, Reichert pit (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Morden

Where: Manitoba, Canada (49.1° N, 97.6° W: paleocoordinates 53.3° N, 62.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pembina Member (Pierre Shale Formation), Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• correlated with Sharon Springs Member in South Dakota and Wyoming by Gill and Cobban (1965) and McNeil and Caldwell (1981)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); black, carbonaceous shale and conglomerate

• Pembina was deposited in quiet water well below wave base, probably well removed from contemporary shores, but gypsum damage obscures evidence.
• The lower unit of the Pembina Formation, from which the fossils were collected, is a distinctive series of black, carbonaceous shales interbedded with seams of bentonite. Layer is "a bone-tooth conglomerate" that is free of selenite.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Isaak & Goertzen

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: L. D. Martin and J. D. Stewart. 1982. An ichthyornithiform bird from the Campanian of Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 19(2):324-327 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 23307: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Jill Wertheim on 11.07.2002, edited by Erin Leckey

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Taxonomic list

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Aves
 Ornithurae -
"Ichthyornithiformes indet." = Ichthyornithes
"Ichthyornithiformes indet." = Ichthyornithes Marsh 1873 bird
MDM D77D37; presacral vertebra
Reptilia
 Testudines -
Toxochelys latiremis
Toxochelys latiremis Cope 1873 turtle