Joffre Bridge Road Cut Fish Layer: Tiffanian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Speirsaenigma lindoei n. gen., n. sp.
Wilson and Williams 1991
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Percopsidae
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Amiidae
Amiidae indet. Huxley 1861
Actinopteri - Percopsiformes - Percopsidae
Paracanthopterygia indet.
    = Massamorichthys wilsoni n. gen., n. sp. Murray 1996
Murray 1996
Actinopteri
Osteoglossomorpha indet. Greenwood et al. 1966
    = Joffrichthys symmetropterus n. gen., n. sp. Li and Wilson 1996
Li and Wilson 1996
Actinopteri - Osteoglossiformes
Lopadichthys sp. Murray et al. 2018
Murray et al. 2018
UALVP 34770, previously included in Joffrichthys symmetropterus
unclassified
Crustacea indet. Brünnich 1772
invalid subgroup of Pancrustacea
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Alberta
Coordinates: 52.3° North, 113.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:58.6° North, 90.7° West
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Paleocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 1
*Period:Early/Lower Tertiary - Tertiary *Epoch:Paleocene - Paleocene
*Local age/stage:Tiffanian
Key time interval:Tiffanian
Age range of interval:60.90000 - 56.20000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Paskapoo Member:Lacombe
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: .
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: silty mudstone
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: silty, ETE lithology comments: 0
Environment:"channel"
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: ab_chan_fill ETE event: flood, ETE env comment: 0
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:many
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Collection size:1800 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 478, 483, 482, 485, 454, ; ETE museum list:
Taxonomic list comments:not the same as any of the Joffre Bridge mammal collections (see)
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 1611, Joffre Bridge; UALVP Locality No. 56 horizon A
Database number:22732
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer, J. Alroy, P. Holroyd Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer, J. Alroy, P. Holroyd
Modifier:M. Clapham
Created:2001-05-29 01:00:00 Last modified:2022-11-12 12:06:28
Access level:the public Released:2001-05-29 01:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
5756.ETE 1514M. V. H. Wilson. 1996. Taphonomy of a mass-death layer of fishes in the Paleocene Paskapoo Formation at Joffre Bridge, Alberta Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 33:1487-1498 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]

Secondary references:

6997 G.-Q. Li and M. V. H. Wilson. 1996. The discovery of heterotidinae (Teleostei: Osteoglossidae) from the Paleocene Paskapoo Formation of Alberta, Canada. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16(2):198-209 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
6995 A. M. Murray. 1996. A new Paleocene genus and species of percopsid, Massamorichthys wilsoni (Paracanthopterygii) from Joffre Bridge, Alberta, Canada. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16(4):642-652 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
64802 A. M. Murray, D. K. Zelenitsky, D. B. Brinkman and A. G. Neuman. 2018. Two new Palaeocene osteoglossomorphs from Canada, with a reassessment of the relationships of the genus †Joffrichthys, and analysis of diversity from articulated versus microfossil material. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 1-8 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/M. Uhen]
6994 M. V. H. Wilson and R. R. G. Williams. 1991. New Paleocene genus and species of smelt (Teleostei: Osmeridae) from freshwater deposits of the Paskapoo Formation, Alberta, Canada, and comments on osmerid phylogeny. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 11(4):434-451 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]