L1101 (ACZ Locality): Late/Upper Campanian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Toxochelyidae
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Lophochelys sp.
Zangerl 1953
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| TMP 1993.91.17 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 49.1° North, 110.5° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 56.3° North, 76.0° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Belly River | Formation: | Dinosaur Park | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: from a channel lag within the 8-16 m thick Lethbridge coal zone | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "extensive lag (<50 cm thick), dominated by large numbers of unionid pelecypod valves and valve fragments" | |
| Environment: | estuary/bay |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Disassociated minor elements: | many |
| Spatial resolution: | allochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | TMP |
Metadata
| Also known as: | 6.5 km northeast of Onefour | ||
| Database number: | 188995 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2017-09-25 12:05:01 | Last modified: | 2017-09-25 12:05:01 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-09-25 12:05:01 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 56093. | D. B. Brinkman, M. Densmore, M. Rabi, M. J. Ryan, and D. C. Evans. 2015. Marine turtles from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 52:581-589 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/P. Mannion] |