Notukeu Creek (14 m): Late/Upper Campanian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Mancicorpus glaber
Fromea chytra
Fromea fragilis Stover and Evitt 1962
Aquilapollenites attenuatus
Aquilapollenites quadrilobus Rouse 1957
Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Terminonatator ponteixensis n. gen., n. sp. Sato 2003
Dinophyceae
Wallodinium luna Lentin and Williams 1973
Dinophyceae - Peridiniales - Peridiniaceae
Isabelidinium cooksoniae Lentin and Williams 1977
see common names

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:14
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Campanian (either B. cuneatus or B. reesidei zones) of the Bearpaw Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Lithology description: "Bearpaw Shale"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:-single event
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Articulated whole bodies:all
Associated major elements:none
Disassociated major elements:none
Disassociated minor elements:none
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:pollen are "the sediments," apparently meaning those surrounding the elasmosaur
Metadata
Also known as:Ponteix
Database number:31122
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:paleobotany,vertebrate
Created:2003-04-14 18:06:00 Last modified:2015-03-18 12:05:31
Access level:the public Released:2003-04-14 18:06:00
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]