East bank of St. Mary River: Late/Upper Campanian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Toxochelyidae
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Lophochelys niobrarae
Zangerl 1953
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1 individual | |||||||||
= Lophochelys sp.
Zangerl 1953
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Brinkman et al. 2015 | |||||||||
TMP 1989.47.1 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
Coordinates: | 49.4° North, 112.8° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 57.1° North, 78.4° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
*Period: | Late/Upper Cretaceous | *Epoch: | Middle Senonian |
*International age/stage: | Late/Upper Campanian | *Local age/stage: | Pierre |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Campanian | ||
Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Bearpaw Shale | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: 5.0 m above the base of the Formation |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "shale" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | poor |
Associated major elements: | some |
Fragmentation: | frequent |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some genera |
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | TMP |
Metadata
Database number: | 23367 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, P. Mannion | Enterer: | J. Wertheim, P. Mannion |
Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2002-07-12 16:27:45 | Last modified: | 2017-09-25 11:51:58 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-07-12 16:27:45 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
735. | 5% 19560 | E. L. Nicholls, T. T. Tokaryk, and L. V. Hills. 1990. Cretaceous marine turtles from the Western Interior Seaway of Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 27(10):1288-1298 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
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] |