PBDB Collection

RTMP BB 97: Late/Upper Campanian, Canada
collected by J. Danis

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae

	Myledaphus bipartitus Cope 1876		92 elements
Osteichthyes

	Osteichthyes informal indet. A Huxley 1880		86 elements

	Osteichthyes informal indet. B Huxley 1880		1 element
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Amiidae

	Kindleia sp. Jordan 1927		7 elements
	synonym of Cyclurus
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae

	Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843		62 elements
	may be same as Atractosteus occidentalis in Table 1?
Actinopteri

	Teleostei informal indet. D Müller 1846		31 elements

	Teleostei indet. Müller 1846		40 elements
	"gen. unident."

	Teleostei informal indet. A Müller 1846	Eberth and Brinkman 1997	1 element

	Teleostei informal indet. N Müller 1846	Eberth and Brinkman 1997	4 elements

	Teleostei informal indet. Q Müller 1846	Eberth and Brinkman 1997	1 element
Actinopteri - Salmoniformes

	Esocoidea indet. Bleeker 1859		8 elements
Actinopteri - Elopiformes - Phyllodontidae

	Paralbula casei Estes 1969		6 elements
Actinopteri - Albuliformes - Albulidae

	Coriops amnicolus Estes 1969		8 elements
Actinopteri - Aspidorhynchiformes - Aspidorhynchidae

	Belonostomus longirostris (Lambe 1902)		3 elements
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela

	Scapherpeton tectum Cope 1876		227 specimens
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Batrachosauroididae

	Opisthotriton kayi Auffenberg 1961		39 specimens
Amphibia - Temnospondyli

	Anura indet. (Fischer von Waldheim 1813)		35 specimens
Reptilia - Lacertilia

	Lacertilia indet. Owen 1842		12 specimens
Reptilia - Dromaeosauridae

	cf. Dromaeosauridae indet. Colbert and Russell 1969		1 specimen

	Richardoestesia sp. Currie et al. 1990	Brinkman et al. 1998	1 specimen

	Saurornitholestes langstoni Sues 1978		7 specimens
Reptilia - Troodontidae

	Troodon sp. Leidy 1856	Brinkman et al. 1998	1 specimen
Reptilia - Tyrannosauridae

	Tyrannosauridae indet. Osborn 1906		3 specimens
Reptilia - Ceratopsidae

	Ceratopsidae indet. Marsh 1888		7 specimens
Reptilia - Pachycephalosauridae

	Pachycephalosauridae indet. Sternberg 1945	Brinkman et al. 1998	2 specimens
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae

	Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869		121 specimens
Reptilia

	Thescelosaurus cf. neglectus Gilmore 1913		2 specimens

	Ankylosauria indet. Osborn 1923		5 specimens

	Leidyosuchus canadensis Lambe 1907		25 specimens

	Champsosaurus natator Parks 1933		7 specimens
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae

	Aspideretes sp. Hay 1904		12 specimens
	= Trionychinae indet. Gray 1825	Alroy 2007
Reptilia - Testudines - Chelydridae

	Chelydridae indet. Swainson 1839		4 specimens
Reptilia - Baenidae

	Baenidae indet. Cope 1882		7 specimens

	Neurankylus eximius Lambe 1902	Brinkman and Nicholls 1993
	TMP 84.59.39, fragmentary pterygoid
Mammalia

	Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758		2 specimens
Mammalia - Multituberculata

	Multituberculata indet. Cope 1884	Brinkman et al. 1998	3 specimens
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:	682 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:	13.5 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,medium,pebbly sandstone
Lithology description: "BB 97 occurs locally within an amalgamated sandstone lithosome (Fig. J6)...compris[ing] an uncertain number of stacked sets of TCSS [trough cross-stratified sandstones]..BB97 occurs at the scour base of a 1.5 m wide TCSS set near the top of the stacked sequence and comprises a 50 cm thick pocket of fine-to-medium-grained sandstone with numerous vertebrate fossils and abundant, well-rounded, matrix-supported intra clast pebbles measuring no more than 3-4 cm in maximum dimension.."
Environment:	"channel"
Glacial or sequence phase:	transgressive
Geology comments: Characterized as in-channel, coastal plain. Facies association = trough cross-stratified sandstones. 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. Coastal Plain. 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:	J. Danis
Collection method comments: Screenwashed elements were collected using a screen with 9 openings per centimeter.

Metadata

Also known as:	Bonebed 97, DPP, JMC 1044
Database number:	45261
Authorizer:	J. Alroy, E. Vlachos, M. Carrano	Enterer:	R. Whatley, E. Vlachos, J. Alroy, M. Carrano
Modifier:	M. Carrano	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2004-10-15 13:55:05	Last modified:	2021-09-22 16:08:17
Access level:	the public	Released:	2004-10-15 13:55:05
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

5929.

ETE 1710

D. 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]

Secondary references:

19636		J. Alroy. 2007. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates and so forth. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
686		D. B. Brinkman and E. L. Nicholls. 1993. The skull of Neurankylus eximius (Testudines: Baenidae) and a reinterpretation of the relationships of this taxon. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 13(3):273-281 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
19348	ETE	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]
16964	ETE	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]
5930	ETE 1711	D. 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]
9017		D. A. Eberth and D. B. Brinkman. 1997. Paleoecology of an estuarine, incised-valley fill in the Dinosaur Park Formation (Judith River Group, Upper Cretaceous) of southern Alberta, Canada. Palaios 12:43-58 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]