Where: Alberta, Canada (54.9° N, 115.5° W: paleocoordinates 62.6° N, 86.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Scollard Formation (Edmonton Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian to Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 61.7 Ma)
• "Upper Edmonton" or possible lower Paskapoo
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•Eberth and Kamo, 2019: Combined with age data for the K-Pg boundary and a calibrated age-range for magnetochron 30n, our age for the Battle bentonite allows us to assess a maximum age of ~66.88 Ma for the base of the overlying Scollard Formation, and an age range of ~66.88–66.04 Ma for the K-ScF (the Cretaceous portion of the Scollard Formation).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; poorly lithified, ferruginous, gray sandstone and poorly lithified, brown sandstone
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by L. Russell in 1965
Primary reference: L. S. Russell. 1967. Palaeontology of the Swan Hills area, north-central Alberta. Life Science Contribution, Royal Ontario Museum 71:1-31 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 46093: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 03.01.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Crocodylidae indet. crocodile |