Pinhorn Range #1, RTMP L1125: Middle Campanian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Plantae indet.
Haeckel 1866
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"carbonaceous plant debris" | ||||||||||
Acipenseriformes
- Acipenseridae
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Acipenseridae indet.
Bonaparte 1831
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90 elements | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Nodosauridae
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Nodosauridae indet.
Marsh 1890
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4 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Ankylosauridae
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Ankylosauridae indet.
Brown 1908
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4 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Ceratopsidae
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Ceratopsidae indet.
Marsh 1888
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52 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Pachycephalosauridae
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Pachycephalosauridae indet.
Sternberg 1945
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Hadrosauridae indet.
Cope 1869
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178 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Dromaeosauridae
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Richardoestesia gilmorei
Currie et al. 1990
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Saurornitholestes langstoni
Sues 1978
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7 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Aves indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Tyrannosauridae
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Tyrannosauridae indet.
Osborn 1906
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5 specimens | |||||||||
Aublysodon sp.
Leidy 1868
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2 specimens | |||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Tyrannosauridae | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Crocodylia
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Leidyosuchus sp.
Lambe 1907
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112 specimens | |||||||||
= Crocodylia indet.
Owen 1842
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Alroy 2007 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Alligatorinae indet.
Cuvier 1807
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10 specimens | |||||||||
Champsosaurus sp.
Cope 1876
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97 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Baenidae
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Baenidae indet.
Cope 1882
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93 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Naomichelys sp.
Hay 1908
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Chelydridae
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Chelydridae indet.
Swainson 1839
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21 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Adocidae
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Adocus sp.
Cope 1868
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129 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionychidae indet.
Gray 1825
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206 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Helodermatidae
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Helodermatidae indet.
Gray 1837
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7 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Anguidae
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cf. Odaxosaurus piger
(Gilmore 1928)
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Chamopsiidae
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Leptochamops sp.
Estes 1964
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Peradectidae
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Peradectidae indet.
Crochet 1979
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Brinkman et al. 2004 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Mammalia
- Pediomyidae
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Pediomys sp.
Marsh 1889
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Brinkman et al. 2004 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
= Pediomyidae indet.
Simpson 1927
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Alroy 2007 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Alphadontidae
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Turgidodon praesagus
(Russell 1952)
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Brinkman et al. 2004 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Mammalia
- Stagodontidae
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Eodelphis sp.
Matthew 1916
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Brinkman et al. 2004 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Mammalia
- Multituberculata
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Multituberculata indet.
Cope 1884
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Brinkman et al. 2004 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Cimolodontidae
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? Cimolodon sp.
Marsh 1889
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Brinkman et al. 2004 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Cimolomyidae
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Cimolomyidae indet.
Sloan and Van Valen 1965
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Brinkman et al. 2004 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
Meniscoessus major
(Russell 1936)
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Brinkman et al. 2004 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Batrachosauroididae
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Opisthotriton kayi
Auffenberg 1961
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29 specimens | |||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Urodela
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Scapherpeton tectum
Cope 1876
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12 specimens | |||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
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Anura indet.
(Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
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33 specimens | |||||||||
Actinopteri
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Holostei informal indet. A
Müller 1846
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94 elements | |||||||||
Holostei informal indet. B
Müller 1846
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355 elements | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
- Lepisosteidae
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Atractosteus occidentalis
(Leidy 1856)
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2463 elements | |||||||||
original and current combination Lepidotus occidentalis | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Amiiformes
- Amiidae
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Amiidae indet.
Huxley 1861
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9 elements | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Aspidorhynchiformes
- Aspidorhynchidae
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Belonostomus longirostris
(Lambe 1902)
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185 elements | |||||||||
Actinopteri
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Teleostei informal indet. D
Müller 1846
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7 elements | |||||||||
Teleostei indet.
Müller 1846
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89 elements | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Albuliformes
- Albulidae
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Coriops amnicolus
Estes 1969
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3 elements | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Elopiformes
- Phyllodontidae
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Paralbula casei
Estes 1969
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1125 elements | |||||||||
Phyllodontinae indet.
Darteville and Casier 1949
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31 elements | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Esociformes
- Esocidae
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Estesesox foxi
Wilson et al. 1992
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4 elements | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Hybodontidae
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Hybodus sp.
Agassiz 1834
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10 elements | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Squatinidae
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Squatina hassei
Leriche 1929
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1 element | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Carchariidae
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Synodontaspis hardingi
(Cappetta and Case 1975)
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23 elements | |||||||||
recombined as Carcharias hardingi | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Rajiformes
- Sclerorhynchidae
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Ischyrhiza mira
Leidy 1856
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8 elements | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Rajiformes
- Rhinobatidae
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Myledaphus bipartitus
Cope 1876
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1952 elements | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
Coordinates: | 49.1° North, 110.9° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 56.4° North, 76.4° 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 |
Key time interval: | Middle Campanian | ||
Age range of interval: | 83.50000 - 70.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Belly River | Formation: | Foremost | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: upper unit of formation (base of third unit), 25 m below Oldman Fm |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | wave ripples,planar lamination,fine,pebbly carbonaceous sandstone |
Secondary lithology: | mudstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "massive (about 3.5 m thick), fine-grained sandstone body, which rests sharply on the underlying dark marine shales of the fourth parasequence of the middle (mudstone) succession. THe overlying sandstone body comprises low-angled to planar sets of ripple-laminated sandstone, with a massive and pebbly base that is traceable about 10 m laterally." | |
Environment: | shoreface |
Glacial or sequence phase: | regressive |
Geology comments: "it is interpreted as a regressive surface of erosion that is related to a drop in relative sea-level." |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Lagerst�tten type: | concentrate |
Degree of concentration: | concentrated |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Disassociated major elements: | many |
Disassociated minor elements: | many |
Size sorting: | well |
Fragmentation: | occasional |
Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | bulk,sieve,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Museum repositories: | TMP |
Metadata
Also known as: | PHR-1 | ||
Database number: | 45564 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano, J. Alroy | Enterer: | M. Carrano, J. Alroy |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2004-11-10 08:04:27 | Last modified: | 2023-07-14 14:06:30 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-11-10 08:04:27 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
11964. | ETE | J. Peng, A. P. Russell, and D. B. Brinkman. 2001. Vertebrate microsite assemblages (exclusive of mammals) from the Foremost and Oldman Formations of the Judith River Group (Campanian) of southeastern Alberta: an illustrated guide. Provincial Museum of Alberta, Natural History Occasional Paper 25:1-54 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
19636 | J. Alroy. 2007. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates and so forth. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
11931 | ETE | D. B. Brinkman, A. P. Russell, D. A. Eberth and J. Peng. 2004. Vertebrate palaeocommunities of the lower Judith River Group (Campanian) of southeastern Alberta, Canada, as interpreted from vertebrate microfossil assemblages. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 213:295-313 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
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] | |
64015 | J. D. Gardner, C. M. Redman, and R. L. Cifelli. 2016. The hopping dead: Late Cretaceous frogs from the middle-late Campanian (Judithian) of western North America. Fossil Imprint 72(1-2):78-107 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/M. Carrano] |