Smoky River valley: Early/Lower Campanian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Mosasauridae
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Russellosaurina indet.
(Bell 1997)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| TMP 1978.011.1269 is an undistorted intermediate caudal centrum | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 55.8° North, 118.0° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 64.2° North, 79.8° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Puskwaskau | Member: | Nomad |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | mudstone |
| Secondary lithology: | siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | offshore indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 153813 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | J. Tennant | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2014-01-15 09:34:48 | Last modified: | 2014-01-15 09:34:48 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-01-15 09:34:48 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 49838. | P. R. Bell, F. Fanti, M. T. Mitchell and P. J. Currie. 2014. Marine reptiles (Plesiosauria and Mosasauridae) from the Puskwaskau Formation (Santonian-Campanian), West-Central Alberta. Journal of Paleontology 88(1):187-194 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant] |