West bank of St. Mary River, Blood Tribe reserve lands: Late/Upper Campanian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
Prognathodon overtoni (Williston 1897)
1 individual
TMP 2002.400.0001 (nearly complete skull and largely articulated postcranium, with one incomplete scapula, associated front paddle elements, semiarticulated pelvic girdle, articulated proximal left hind paddle, and articulated, nearly complete right hind paddle)
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Alberta
Coordinates: 49.7° North, 112.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:57.4° North, 78.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Late/Upper Campanian
Age range of interval:83.50000 - 70.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Bearpaw Shale
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 15 m above the base of the Formation; likely that the age of the two mosasaurs is no younger than 74 Ma
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:TMP
Metadata
Also known as:TMP 2002.400.0001; Prognathodon overtoni referred specimens
Database number:119089
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Carrano
Created:2011-10-20 20:51:09 Last modified:2015-03-18 12:04:12
Access level:the public Released:2011-10-20 20:51:09
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

38254. T. Konishi, D. Brinkman, J. A. Massare and M. W. Caldwell. 2011. New exceptional specimens of Prognathodon overtoni (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from the upper Campanian of Alberta, Canada, and the systematics and ecology of the genus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(5):1026-1046 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Uhen]