Also known as Black Coulee
Where: Alberta, Canada (49.1° N, 111.4° W: paleocoordinates 54.3° N, 73.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Deadhorse Coulee Member (Milk River Formation), Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)
• "about 40 feet above Lower Milk River sandstone"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by L. S. Russell in 1934; reposited in the GSC
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: L. S. Russell. 1935. Fauna of the upper Milk River Beds, southern Alberta. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, series 3 4(29):115-128 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 71485: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.04.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Compsemys sp. Leidy 1856 turtle | |
? Aspideretes sp. Hay 1904 softshell turtle | |
Basilemys sp. Hay 1902 turtle | |
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle | |
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia Owen 1842 crocodilian | |
cf. Kritosaurus sp. Brown 1910 hadrosaurine | |
"Deinodontidae indet." = Tyrannosauridae
"Deinodontidae indet." = Tyrannosauridae Osborn 1906 tyrannosaurid | |
Actinopteri | |
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843 gar |