Little Sandhill Creek, about 3 miles above the juncture with Red Deer River: Campanian, Canada
collected by C. M. Sternberg
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Baenidae
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Plesiobaena antiqua
(Lambe 1902)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| NMC 8599 (partial skeleton) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 50.7° North, 111.5° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 57.9° North, 75.3° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| Key time interval: | Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Belly River | Formation: | Oldman |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | NMC |
| Collectors: | C. M. Sternberg |
| Collection method comments: NMC National Museum of Canada, collection | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 123097 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Benson | Enterer: | R. Benson |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-01-11 00:00:04 | Last modified: | 2014-09-19 11:34:14 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-07-11 00:00:04 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 704. | E. S. Gaffney. 1972. The systematics of the North American family Baenidae (Reptilia, Cryptodira). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 147(5):245-312 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/R. Benson] |