Pinhorn Range #1, RTMP L1125: Middle Campanian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
"carbonaceous plant debris"
Acipenseriformes - Acipenseridae
Acipenseridae indet. Bonaparte 1831
90 elements
Reptilia - Nodosauridae
Nodosauridae indet. Marsh 1890
4 specimens
Reptilia - Ankylosauridae
Ankylosauridae indet. Brown 1908
4 specimens
Reptilia - Ceratopsidae
Ceratopsidae indet. Marsh 1888
52 specimens
Reptilia - Pachycephalosauridae
Pachycephalosauridae indet. Sternberg 1945
2 specimens
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869
178 specimens
Reptilia - Dromaeosauridae
Richardoestesia gilmorei Currie et al. 1990
3 specimens
Saurornitholestes langstoni Sues 1978
7 specimens
Reptilia
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758
3 specimens
Reptilia - Tyrannosauridae
Tyrannosauridae indet. Osborn 1906
5 specimens
Aublysodon sp. Leidy 1868
2 specimens
nomen dubium belonging to Tyrannosauridae
Reptilia - Crocodylia
Leidyosuchus sp. Lambe 1907
112 specimens
    = Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842
Alroy 2007
Reptilia
Alligatorinae indet. Cuvier 1807
10 specimens
Champsosaurus sp. Cope 1876
97 specimens
Reptilia - Baenidae
Baenidae indet. Cope 1882
93 specimens
Reptilia
Naomichelys sp. Hay 1908
1 specimen
Reptilia - Testudines - Chelydridae
Chelydridae indet. Swainson 1839
21 specimens
Reptilia - Testudines - Adocidae
Adocus sp. Cope 1868
129 specimens
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825
206 specimens
Reptilia - Helodermatidae
Helodermatidae indet. Gray 1837
7 specimens
Reptilia - Anguidae
cf. Odaxosaurus piger (Gilmore 1928)
3 specimens
Reptilia - Chamopsiidae
Leptochamops sp. Estes 1964
2 specimens
Mammalia - Peradectidae
Peradectidae indet. Crochet 1979
Brinkman et al. 2004 1 specimen
Mammalia - Pediomyidae
Pediomys sp. Marsh 1889
Brinkman et al. 2004 1 specimen
    = Pediomyidae indet. Simpson 1927
Alroy 2007
Mammalia - Alphadontidae
Turgidodon praesagus (Russell 1952)
Brinkman et al. 2004 1 specimen
Mammalia - Stagodontidae
Eodelphis sp. Matthew 1916
Brinkman et al. 2004 1 specimen
Mammalia - Multituberculata
Multituberculata indet. Cope 1884
Brinkman et al. 2004 2 specimens
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Cimolodontidae
? Cimolodon sp. Marsh 1889
Brinkman et al. 2004 1 specimen
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Cimolomyidae
Cimolomyidae indet. Sloan and Van Valen 1965
Brinkman et al. 2004 3 specimens
Meniscoessus major (Russell 1936)
Brinkman et al. 2004 1 specimen
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Batrachosauroididae
Opisthotriton kayi Auffenberg 1961
29 specimens
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela
Scapherpeton tectum Cope 1876
12 specimens
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
Anura indet. (Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
33 specimens
Actinopteri
Holostei informal indet. A Müller 1846
94 elements
Holostei informal indet. B Müller 1846
355 elements
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Atractosteus occidentalis (Leidy 1856)
2463 elements
original and current combination Lepidotus occidentalis
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Amiidae
Amiidae indet. Huxley 1861
9 elements
Actinopteri - Aspidorhynchiformes - Aspidorhynchidae
Belonostomus longirostris (Lambe 1902)
185 elements
Actinopteri
Teleostei informal indet. D Müller 1846
7 elements
Teleostei indet. Müller 1846
89 elements
Actinopteri - Albuliformes - Albulidae
Coriops amnicolus Estes 1969
3 elements
Actinopteri - Elopiformes - Phyllodontidae
Paralbula casei Estes 1969
1125 elements
Phyllodontinae indet. Darteville and Casier 1949
31 elements
Actinopteri - Esociformes - Esocidae
Estesesox foxi Wilson et al. 1992
4 elements
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834
10 elements
Chondrichthyes - Squatinidae
Squatina hassei Leriche 1929
1 element
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Synodontaspis hardingi (Cappetta and Case 1975)
23 elements
recombined as Carcharias hardingi
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae
Ischyrhiza mira Leidy 1856
8 elements
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae
Myledaphus bipartitus Cope 1876
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]
11931ETE 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]