Carrot River, section 26 (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Saskatchewan, Canada (53.2° N, 103.5° W: paleocoordinates 54.1° N, 61.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Niobrara Formation), Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• informal lower member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous shale

• The informal lower member is a calcareous shale, upper member is chalky

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: E. L. Nicholls, T. T. Tokaryk, and L. V. Hills. 1990. Cretaceous marine turtles from the Western Interior Seaway of Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 27(10):1288-1298 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 23370: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Jill Wertheim on 12.07.2002

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Taxonomic list

• Also in this member are selachian, teleosts, elasmosaurs. Turtles, mosasaurs, and avians are rare.
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Reptilia
 Testudines -
Testudines indet.
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
Family, genus, species indeterminate