Smoky Tower Fish Locality: Paleocene, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Urodela
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Urodela indet.
(Duméril 1805)
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Gardner and DeMar 2013 | |||||||||
Dicamptodon antiquus
Naylor and Fox 1993
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Gardner and DeMar 2013 | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Percopsiformes
- Percopsidae
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Percopsidae indet.
Regan 1911
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= Lateopisciculus turrifumosus n. gen., n. sp.
Murray and Wilson 1996
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Murray and Wilson 1996 | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Esociformes
- Esocidae
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Esox tiemani
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"numerous" | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Osteoglossiformes
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Joffrichthys sp.
Li and Wilson 1996
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= Lopadichthys cf. colwellae
Murray et al. 2018
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Murray et al. 2018 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
Coordinates: | 54.3° North, 118.8° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 61.8° North, 94.4° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 | ||
*Period: | Early/Lower Tertiary | ||
Key time interval: | Paleocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 66.00000 - 56.00000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: no details given |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | mudstone |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Geology comments: no details given, except that "lithology... closely resembles that of the Joffre Bridge site," which is in a mudstone |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Articulated whole bodies: | many |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 24926 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, P. Holroyd | Enterer: | J. Alroy, P. Holroyd |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2002-08-22 20:38:19 | Last modified: | 2002-08-22 23:41:15 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-08-22 20:38:19 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
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] |
Secondary references:
64997 | T. D. Cook, J. G. Eaton, M. G. Newbrey and M. V. H. Wilson. 2014. A new genus and species of freshwater stingray (Myliobatiformes, Dasyatoidea) from the latest middle Eocene of Utah, U.S.A. Journal of Paleontology 88(3):497-503 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/M. Uhen] | |
65027 | J. D. Gardner and D. G. DeMar. 2013. Mesozoic and Palaeocene lissamphibian assemblages of North America: a comprehensive review. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 93:459-515 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/M. Carrano] | |
65031 | A. M. Murray and M. V. H. Wilson. 1996. A new Palaeocene genus and species of percopsiform (Teleostei: Paracanthopterygii) from the Paskapoo Formation, Smoky Tower, Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 33:429-438 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] | |
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] |