Smoky Tower Fish Locality (Paleocene of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (54.3° N, 118.8° W: paleocoordinates 61.8° N, 94.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)

• no details given

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone

• no details given, except that "lithology... closely resembles that of the Joffre Bridge site," which is in a mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G.-Q. Li and M. V. H. Wilson. 1996. The discovery of heterotidinae (Teleostei: Osteoglossidae) from the Paleocene Paskapoo Formation of Alberta, Canada. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16(2):198-209 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24926: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 22.08.2002, edited by Patricia Holroyd

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Taxonomic list

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Amphibia
 Caudata - Urodela
Urodela indet.1, Dicamptodon antiquus1
Urodela indet.1 salamander
Dicamptodon antiquus1 Naylor and Fox 1993 Pacific giant salamander
Actinopteri
 Osteoglossiformes -
Lopadichthys cf. colwellae3
Lopadichthys cf. colwellae3 Murray et al. 2018
 Esociformes - Esocidae
Esox tiemani
Esox tiemani pike
"numerous"
 Percopsiformes - Percopsidae
Lateopisciculus turrifumosus n. gen. n. sp.2
Lateopisciculus turrifumosus n. gen. n. sp.2 Murray and Wilson 1996
1Gardner and DeMar 2013; 2Murray and Wilson 1996; 3Murray et al. 2018