Verdigris Coulee (UA-MR-4): Late/Upper Santonian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Hybodontidae
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Hybodus sp.
Agassiz 1834
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Brinkman et al. 2017 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Albanerpetontidae
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Albanerpetontidae indet.
Fox and Naylor 1982
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Gardner 2000 | 11 specimens | ||||||||
Albanerpeton nexuosus
Estes 1981
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Gardner 2000 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
Albanerpeton galaktion
Fox and Naylor 1982
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Gardner 2000 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
Mammalia
- Multituberculata
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Cimexomys antiquus
Fox 1971
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Fox 1971 | |||||||||
Viridomys orbatus n. sp.
Fox 1971
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Fox 1971 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Cimolomyidae
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? Cimolomys informal sp. A
Marsh 1889
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Fox 1971 | |||||||||
? Cimolomys informal sp. B
Marsh 1889
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Fox 1971 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Cimolodontidae
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Cimolodon similis
Fox 1971
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Fox 1971 | |||||||||
Cimolodon electus n. sp.
Fox 1971
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Fox 1971 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Neoplagiaulacidae
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Mesodma senecta n. sp.
Fox 1971
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Fox 1971 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Multituberculata
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Cimexomys magister
Fox 1971
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Fox 1971 | |||||||||
recombined as Paracimexomys magister | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Aquiladelphidae
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Aquiladelphis incus
Fox 1971
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Fox 1971 | |||||||||
Aquiladelphis minor
Fox 1971
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Fox 1971 | |||||||||
Mammalia
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Pediomys exiguus n. sp.
Fox 1971
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Fox 1971 | |||||||||
recombined as Apistodon exiguus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Alphadontidae
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Albertatherium primus
Fox 1971
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Fox 1971 | |||||||||
Alphadon creber
Fox 1971
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Fox 1971 | |||||||||
recombined as Varalphadon creber | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Groeberida
- Nototheriidae
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Alticonodon lindoei n. sp.
Fox 1969
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Reptilia
- Anguidae
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Anguidae indet.
Gray 1825
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Gao and Fox 1996 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
UALVP 33378 (left dentary) plus many unnumbered fragments | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Scincomorpha indet.
(Camp 1923)
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Gao and Fox 1996 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
UALVP 29830 (partial right maxilla) | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
Coordinates: | 49.1° North, 111.8° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 54.4° North, 73.7° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Santonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 | *Epoch: | Senonian |
*International age/stage: | Campanian | ||
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Santonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 85.80000 - 83.50000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Milk River | Member: | Deadhorse Coulee | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: upper part of formation |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some genera |
Collection methods: | bulk,sieve,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | UALVP MR-4 | ||
Database number: | 14423 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, P. Holroyd, R. Benson, M. Carrano | Enterer: | J. Alroy, R. Benson, P. Holroyd, M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2015-08-13 10:03:24 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
1508. | R. C. Fox. 1969. Studies of Late Cretaceous vertebrates. III. A triconodont mammal from Alberta. Canadian Journal of Zoology 47:1253-1256 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/R. Benson] |
Secondary references:
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
64013 | D. B. Brinkman, A. G. Neuman, and J. D. Divay. 2017. Non-marine fishes of the late Santonian Milk River Formation of Alberta, Canada – evidence from vertebrate microfossil localities. Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Paleontology 3:7-46 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/M. Carrano] | |
1510 | R. C. Fox. 1971. Early Campanian multituberculates (Mammalia: Allotheria) from the upper Milk River Formation, Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 8:916-938 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano] | |
1511 | R. C. Fox. 1971. Marsupial mammals from the early Campanian Milk River Formation, Alberta, Canada. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 50(suppl. 1):145-164 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano] | |
37933 | K. -Q. Gao and R. C. Fox. 1996. Taxonomy and evolution of Late Cretaceous lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from western Canada. Bulletin of the Carnegie Museum of natural History 33:1-107 [R. Benson/R. Benson] | |
42675 | J. D. Gardner. 2000. Albanerpetontid amphibians from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian and Maastrichtian) of North America. Geodiversitas 22(3):349-388 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |