Canyon Ski Quarry: Tiffanian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Urodela
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Piceoerpeton willwoodense
(Meszoely 1967)
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Naylor and Krause 1981 | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Macroscelidea
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Diacocherus meizon
Gingerich 1983
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| recombined as Adunator meizon | |||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Paromomyidae
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Ignacius frugivorus
Matthew and Granger 1921
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Carpolestidae
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Carpodaptes cygneus
(Russell 1967)
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= Carpocristes sp.
Beard and Wang 1995
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Beard 2000 | ||||||
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= Carpodaptes cf. stonleyi
Fox 2002
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Fox 2002 | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Plesiadapidae
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? Nannodectes sp.
Gingerich 1975
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Mammalia
- Erinaceidae
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Litolestes ignotus
Jepsen 1930
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Mammalia
- Nyctitheriidae
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Leptacodon packi
Jepsen 1930
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Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Neoplagiaulacidae
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Neoplagiaulax sp.
Lemoine 1882
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 52.2° North, 113.7° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 58.6° North, 90.8° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Tiffanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 60.90000 - 56.20000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Taxonomic list comments:said to be superposed to the Joffre Bridge sites same as Fox 1990a |
Metadata
| Database number: | 14934 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:40 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1534. | R. C. Fox. 1988. Late Cretaceous and Paleocene mammal localities of southern Alberta. Occasional Paper of the Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology 6:1-38 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion] |
Secondary references:
| 1039 | K. C. Beard. 2000. A new species of Carpocristes (Mammalia: Primatomorpha) from the middle Tiffanian of the Bison Basin, Wyoming, with notes on carpolestid phylogeny. Annals of Carnegie Museum 69(3):195-208 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/K. Beard] | |
| 7175 | R. C. Fox. 2002. The dentition and relationships of Carpodaptes cygneus (Russell) (Carpolestidae, Plesiadapiformes, Mammalia), from the late Paleocene of Alberta, Canada. Journal of Paleontology 76(5):864-881 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 28586 | B. G. Naylor and D. W. Krause. 1981. Piceoerpeton, a giant early Tertiary salamander from western North America. Journal of Paleontology 55(3):507-523 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |