Pine Cree Park: Danian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Viviparidae
Lioplacodes nebrascensis
(Meek and Hayden 1857); viviparid
Gastropoda - Hydrobiidae
Hydrobia warrenana
(Meek and Hayden 1858); hydrobiid caenogastropod
Acipenseriformes - Acipenseridae
? Acipenseridae indet. Bonaparte 1831
Reptilia - Crocodylia
? Leidyosuchus sp. Lambe 1907
    = Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842
Alroy 2007
Mammalia - Procreodi - Arctocyonidae
Carcinodon aquilonius n. sp. Russell 1974
Mammalia - Primates - Purgatoriidae
Purgatorius pinecreeensis n. sp. Scott et al. 2016
Scott et al. 2016 6 specimens
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae
Neoplagiaulacidae indet. Ameghino 1890
Fox 1990
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Amiidae
? Amiidae indet. Huxley 1861
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Saskatchewan
Coordinates: 49.6° North, 108.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:56.0° North, 83.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Paleocene
Stage:Danian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 1
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Early/Lower Paleocene
*Local age/stage:Puercan
Key time interval:Danian
Age range of interval:66.00000 - 61.60000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ravenscrag
Local section:Cypress Hills Local bed:3
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: fossils are from a 0.55 m bed

Magnetostratigraphy suggests Ravenscrag Fm. is Danian in age (see Eberth et al. 2019)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:ferruginous,shelly/skeletal,red argillaceous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "Sandstone, clayey, soft, rust-colored; numerous crushed shells" and vertebrates
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Collection size:3 specimens
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:14764
Authorizer:J. Alroy, M. Uhen Enterer:J. Alroy, M. Uhen
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:1994-07-27 00:00:00 Last modified:2022-02-09 07:29:53
Access level:the public Released:1994-07-27 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

6583. L. S. Russell. 1974. Fauna and correlation of the Ravenscrag Formation (Paleocene) of southwestern Saskatchewan. Life Sciences Contributions, Royal Ontario Museum 102:1-53 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

19636 J. Alroy. 2007. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates and so forth. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
1536 R. C. Fox. 1990. The succession of Paleocene mammals in western Canada. Geological Society of America Special Paper 243:51-70 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
64178 C. S. Scott, R. C. Fox, and C. M. Redman. 2016. A new species of the basal plesiadapiform Purgatorius (Mammalia, Primates) from the early Paleocene Ravenscrag Formation, Cypress Hills, southwest Saskatchewan, Canada: further taxonomic and dietary diversity in the earliest primates. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 53:343-354 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/G. Lloyd]