Bad Heart Creek: Early/Lower Campanian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Mosasauridae
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Plioplatecarpinae indet.
(Dollo 1884)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
TMP 1973.011.2796 is an isolated tooth crown (27 mm in height); TMP 1995.060.0030 is an incomplete dorsal vertebra | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
Coordinates: | 55.5° North, 118.2° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 64.0° North, 80.2° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
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 excludes: | all macrofossils |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 153814 | ||
Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | J. Tennant | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2014-01-15 09:38:45 | Last modified: | 2014-01-15 09:38:45 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-01-15 09:38:45 |
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] |