Smoky Tower Fish Locality: Paleocene, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela
Urodela indet. (Duméril 1805)
Gardner and DeMar 2013
Dicamptodon antiquus Naylor and Fox 1993
Gardner and DeMar 2013
Actinopteri - Percopsiformes - Percopsidae
Percopsidae indet. Regan 1911
    = Lateopisciculus turrifumosus n. gen., n. sp. Murray and Wilson 1996
Murray and Wilson 1996
Actinopteri - Esociformes - Esocidae
Esox tiemani
"numerous"
Actinopteri - Osteoglossiformes
Joffrichthys sp. Li and Wilson 1996
    = Lopadichthys cf. colwellae Murray et al. 2018
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]