New Egg Site, Devil's Coulee: Late/Upper Campanian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Prismatoolithidae
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Prismatoolithus levis n. sp.
Zelenitsky and Hills 1996
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1 individual | |||||||||
| TMP 94.179.1; partial clutch containing 12 eggs. Eggshell fragments removed from eggs catalogued under TMP 94.157.7 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 49.3° North, 112.6° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 56.9° North, 78.2° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| 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: | Oldman |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | TMP |
Metadata
| Database number: | 226216 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2022-06-24 11:09:47 | Last modified: | 2022-06-24 11:09:47 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2022-06-24 11:09:47 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 44319. | D. K. Zelenitsky and L. V. Hills. 1996. An egg clutch of Prismatooiitlbus levis oosp. nov. from the Oldman Formation (Upper Cretaceous) Devil's Coulee, southern Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 33:1127-1131 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles/M. Carrano] |