Fish Scale Marker Bed: Albian - Cenomanian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Enchodontiformes indet.
ETE occurrence; species: Enchodontiformes
Actinopteri - Elopiformes - Osmeroididae
Osmeroides transversus
Actinopteri - Ichthyodectiformes - Ichthyodectidae
Ichthyodectidae indet. Crook 1892
ETE occurrence; species: Ichthyodectidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Alberta
Coordinates: 52.0° North, 118.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:53.1° North, 70.7° West
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous
*International age/stage:Albian - Turonian
Key time interval:Albian - Cenomanian
Age range of interval:113.00000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Shaftesbury
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: . radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: silty sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: siltstone, ETE lithology comments: 0
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: marine, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Lagerst�tten type:concentrate
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:3 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taphonomic analysis
Collection method comments: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 478, 479, 483, 482, 121, 456, ; ETE museum list:
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 1612
Database number:22733
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:taphonomy,vertebrate
Created:2001-05-29 01:00:00 Last modified:2005-03-06 11:47:44
Access level:the public Released:2001-05-29 01:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

5773.ETE 1532D. A. Leckie, C. Singh, J. Bloch, M. Wilson, and J. Wall. 1992. An anoxic event at the Albian-Cenomanian boundary: the Fish Scale Marker Bed, northern Alberta, Canada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 92:139-166 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Carrano]