RTMP BB 119: Late/Upper Campanian, Canada
collected by Brinkman, Currie, Maier 1984–1985

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes
Osteichthyes informal indet. A Huxley 1880
Brinkman 1990 26 elements
Osteichthyes informal indet. B Huxley 1880
Brinkman 1990 2 elements
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
Anura indet. (Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
Brinkman 1990 1 specimen
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela
Scapherpeton tectum Cope 1876
Brinkman 1990 11 specimens
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Batrachosauroididae
Opisthotriton kayi Auffenberg 1961
Brinkman 1990 2 specimens
Reptilia - Ceratopsidae
Ceratopsidae indet. Marsh 1888
Brinkman 1990 8 specimens
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869
Brinkman 1990 56 specimens
Reptilia - Dromaeosauridae
Saurornitholestes langstoni Sues 1978
Brinkman 1990 2 specimens
Dromaeosaurus sp. Matthew and Brown 1922
Brinkman et al. 1998 1 specimen
Richardoestesia sp. Currie et al. 1990
Brinkman et al. 1998 1 specimen
Reptilia - Tyrannosauridae
Tyrannosauridae indet. Osborn 1906
Brinkman 1990 2 specimens
Reptilia
Alligatoroidea indet. (Gray 1844)
Wu 2005 1 specimen
TMP 88.36.173 (right dentary)
Leidyosuchus canadensis Lambe 1907
Brinkman 1990 29 specimens
Reptilia - Plesiosauria
Plesiosauria indet. (de Blainville 1835)
1 specimen
TMP 80.31.1
Reptilia
Champsosaurus natator Parks 1933
Brinkman 1990 15 specimens
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Aspideretes sp. Hay 1904
Brinkman 1990 15 specimens
    = Trionychinae indet. Gray 1825
Alroy 2007
Reptilia - Testudines - Chelydridae
Chelydridae indet. Swainson 1839
Brinkman 1990 1 specimen
Reptilia - Baenidae
Baenidae indet. Cope 1882
Brinkman 1990 1 specimen
Acipenseriformes - Polyodontidae
Polyodontidae indet. Bonaparte 1838
Brinkman 1990 1 element
Actinopteri
Teleostei indet. Müller 1846
Brinkman 1990 1 element
Actinopteri - Elopiformes - Phyllodontidae
Paralbula casei Estes 1969
Brinkman 1990 6 elements
Actinopteri - Salmoniformes
Esocoidea indet. Bleeker 1859
Brinkman 1990 1 element
Actinopteri - Aspidorhynchiformes - Aspidorhynchidae
Belonostomus longirostris (Lambe 1902)
Brinkman 1990 2 elements
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Amiidae
Kindleia sp. Jordan 1927
Brinkman 1990 1 element
synonym of Cyclurus
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843
Brinkman 1990 204 elements
may be same as Atractosteus occidentalis in Table 1?
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae
Myledaphus bipartitus Cope 1876
Brinkman 1990 129 elements
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Alberta
Coordinates: 50.7° North, 111.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:58.0° North, 76.0° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:721 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Late/Upper Campanian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Belly River Formation:Dinosaur Park
Local section:DPP-Brinkman Local bed:56.0 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Microvertebrate sites of Brinkman (1990) are "...placed in stratigraphic sequence by reference to a disconformity located about sixty meters below the base of the Lethbridge Coal (Eberth, 1990). The stratigraphic position of each site is expressed in terms of meteres above or below the disconformity (Fig. 2, Brinkman, 1990)."
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:"cross stratification",lag,fine,pebbly,intraclastic silty sandstone
Lithology description: "BB 119 occurs at the lateral margin of a broadly dish-shaped (in cross-section) multistoried sandstone body (Fig. 6H). At the fossil site, the sandstone body is only 20-50 cm thick and comprises ripple-laminated, silty, fine-grained sandstones (Fig. 6I). Fossils occur at the base of this interval overlying a massive mudstone and in association with massive, mudstone-intraclast-rich sandstone.
Environment:"channel"
Glacial or sequence phase:transgressive
Geology comments: Characterized as in-channel, coastal plain. Facies association = trough cross-stratified sandstones. Upper flow-regime, tractional plane beds fromed during flood stage. Lag deposits, or plane bed deposits that show horizontal-planar stratification, bed thicknesses exceeding single pebble diameters, normal graded or fining upward texture, and matrix-supported clasts.
The disconformity in southern Alberta records a Cordilleran uplift event west of the Park.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:many
Fragmentation:occasional
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,surface (float),sieve,field collection
Minimum sieve size:64.000 Maximum sieve size:81.000
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Museum repositories:TMP
Collectors:Brinkman, Currie, Maier Collection dates:1984–1985
Collection method comments: Screenwashed elements were collected using a screen with 9 openings per centimeter.
Metadata
Also known as:Turtle Pond, DPP, Bonebed 119, RTMP Quarry 159, U009
Database number:45260
Authorizer:J. Alroy, P. Mannion, M. Carrano Enterer:R. Whatley, J. Alroy, J. Tennant, M. Carrano, P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-10-15 13:20:16 Last modified:2021-09-22 16:02:55
Access level:the public Released:2004-10-15 13:20:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
15355.ETE J. Danis. 1986. Quarries of Dinosaur Provincial Park. In B. G. Naylor (ed.), Field Trip Guidebook to Dinosaur Provincial Park, 2 June 1986. Dinosaur Systematics Symposium, Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Drumheller, Alberta 43-51 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

19636 J. Alroy. 2007. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates and so forth. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
5929ETE 1710D. B. Brinkman. 1990. Paleontology of the Judith River Formation (Campanian) of Dinosaur National Park, Alberta, Canada: evidence from vertebrate microfossil locality. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 78:37-54 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Carrano]
19348ETE D. B. Brinkman, M. J. Ryan, and D. A. Eberth. 1998. The paleogeographic and stratigraphic distribution of ceratopsids (Ornithischia) in the Upper Judith River Group of western Canada. Palaios 13:160-169 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
16964ETE P. J. Currie. 2005. History of research. In P. J. Currie and E. B. Koppelhus (eds.), Dinosaur Provincial Park: A Spectacular Ancient Ecosystem Revealed. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 3-33 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
5930ETE 1711D. A. Eberth. 1990. Stratigraphy and sedimentology of vertebrate microfossil sites in the uppermost Judith River Formation (Campanian), Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 78:1-36 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]
78157 D. A. Eberth. 2015. Origins of dinosaur bonebeds in the Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 52(8):655-681 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
46170 T. Sato, D. A. Eberth, E. L. Nicholls and M. Manabe. 2005. Plesiosaurian remains from non-marine to paralic sediments. Dinosaur Provincial Park: A Spectacular Ancient Ecosystem Revealed 249-276 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/P. Mannion]
39538 X.-C. Wu. 2005. Crocodylians. In P. J. Currie, E. Koppelhus (eds.), Dinosaur Provincial Park: A Spectacular Ancient Ecosystem Revealed 277-291 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]