Notukeu Creek (8 m): Late/Upper Campanian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Baculitidae
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Baculites sp.
Lamarck 1799
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Saskatchewan |
| Coordinates: | 49.8° North, 107.4° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 56.2° North, 72.2° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| *Period: | Late/Upper Cretaceous | *Epoch: | Senonian |
| *International age/stage: | Late/Upper Campanian | ||
| 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 | ||
| Local section: | Notukeu Creek | Local bed: | 8 |
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | concretionary "shale" |
| Lithology description: "Bearpaw Shale... Concretionary layers" | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Ponteix | ||
| Database number: | 31121 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-04-14 16:37:41 | Last modified: | 2015-03-18 12:05:25 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-04-14 16:37:41 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 8388. | T. Sato. 2003. Terminonatator ponteixensis, a new elasmosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Saskatchewan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(1):89-103 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |