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