Where: Saskatchewan, Canada (49.5° N, 109.1° W: paleocoordinates 56.6° N, 81.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Frenchman Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• "the sand unit is no more than 1.75m thick...and lies unconformably on a thin segment (0.5m) of grey clay, presumably pertaining to the Battle Formation."
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified, red sandstone and gray claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected in 1977
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), sieve,
Primary reference: P. A. Johnston. 1980. First record of Mesosoic mammals from Saskatchewan. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 17:512-519 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 35251: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.11.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Myledaphus sp. Cope 1876 guitarfish | |
Amphibia | |
Scapherpeton sp. Cope 1876 salamander | |
Reptilia | |
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle | |
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian | |
Ceratopsia indet. ceratopsian
Ornithopoda indet. ornithopod | |
Theropoda indet. theropod | |
Champsosaurus sp. Cope 1876 choristodere | |
Actinopteri | |
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843 gar | |
Amia sp. Linnaeus 1766 bowfin |