Also known as SMNH locality 63E03-001

Where: Saskatchewan, Canada (53.2° N, 103.5° W: paleocoordinates 52.0° N, 59.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Belle Fourche Formation (Colorado Group), Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• 40Ar/39Ar age from overlying bentonite = 95.17 ± 0.31 Ma

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; shelly/skeletal conglomerate and claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by D. Hardie in 1991-1994

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: S. L. Cumbaa and T. T. Tokaryk. 1993. Early birds, crocodile tears, and fish tales: Cenomanian and Turonian marine vertebrates from Saskatchewan, Canada. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 13(3, suppl.):31A-32A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52997: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 30.08.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano and Matthew Clapham

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