Deadhorse Coulee, Locality 7 (Cretaceous of Canada)

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
 Testudinata -
Compsemys sp. Leidy 1856 turtle
 Testudines - Trionychidae
? Aspideretes sp. Hay 1904 softshell turtle
 Testudines - Nanhsiungchelyidae
Basilemys sp. Hay 1902 turtle
 Testudines -
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle
 Loricata -
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia Owen 1842 crocodilian
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
cf. Kritosaurus sp. Brown 1910 hadrosaurine
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
"Deinodontidae indet." = Tyrannosauridae
"Deinodontidae indet." = Tyrannosauridae Osborn 1906 tyrannosaurid
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843 gar