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
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Prognathodon overtoni
(Williston 1897)
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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] |