Puntledge River Mosasaur: Late/Upper Santonian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Mosasauridae
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Mosasauridae indet.
Gervais 1852
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Canada | State/province: | British Columbia |
Coordinates: | 49.7° North, 125.0° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 53.6° North, 90.6° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Santonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
*Period: | Late/Upper Cretaceous | *Epoch: | Senonian |
*International age/stage: | Late/Upper Santonian | ||
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Santonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 86.30000 - 83.60000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Pender |
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "siliciclastic" |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Articulated whole bodies: | none |
Associated major elements: | all |
Disassociated major elements: | none |
Disassociated minor elements: | none |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 27725 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2003-01-06 20:54:14 | Last modified: | 2003-01-06 22:54:19 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-01-06 20:54:14 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
7623. | E. L. Nicholls and D. Meckert. 2002. Marine reptiles from the Nanaimo Group (Upper Cretaceous) of Vancouver Island. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 39(11):1591-1603 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |