Hoodoo Site, RTMP L1126: Middle Campanian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
"carbonaceous plant debris"
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Sphaeriidae
Pisidiidae indet. Gray 1857
spelled with current rank as Pisidiinae
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
Reptilia - Ankylosauridae
Ankylosauridae indet. Brown 1908
2 specimens
Reptilia - Ceratopsidae
Ceratopsidae indet. Marsh 1888
3 specimens
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869
83 specimens
Reptilia - Dromaeosauridae
Richardoestesia gilmorei Currie et al. 1990
2 specimens
Saurornitholestes langstoni Sues 1978
6 specimens
Reptilia - Tyrannosauridae
Tyrannosauridae indet. Osborn 1906
2 specimens
Reptilia - Crocodylia
Leidyosuchus sp. Lambe 1907
28 specimens
    = Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842
Alroy 2007
Reptilia
Alligatorinae indet. Cuvier 1807
3 specimens
Champsosaurus sp. Cope 1876
17 specimens
Reptilia - Baenidae
Baenidae indet. Cope 1882
2 specimens
Reptilia - Testudines - Chelydridae
Chelydridae indet. Swainson 1839
14 specimens
Reptilia - Testudines - Adocidae
Adocus sp. Cope 1868
13 specimens
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825
2 specimens
Reptilia - Helodermatidae
Helodermatidae indet. Gray 1837
3 specimens
Reptilia
Colpodontosaurus cf. cracens Estes 1964
1 specimen
Palaeosaniwa canadensis Gilmore 1928
2 specimens
Reptilia - Xenosauridae
Xenosauridae indet. Cope 1866
1 specimen
Reptilia - Chamopsiidae
Socognathus unicuspis Gao and Fox 1991
1 specimen
Mammalia - Stagodontidae
Eodelphis sp. Matthew 1916
Brinkman et al. 2004 1 specimen
Mammalia - Multituberculata
Multituberculata indet. Cope 1884
Brinkman et al. 2004 3 specimens
Cimexomys sp. Sloan and Van Valen 1965
Brinkman et al. 2004 1 specimen
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Cimolomyidae
Cimolomyidae indet. Sloan and Van Valen 1965
Brinkman et al. 2004 1 specimen
Cimolomys clarki Sahni 1972
Brinkman et al. 2004 1 specimen
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae
Albanerpeton sp. Estes and Hoffstetter 1976
6 specimens
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Batrachosauroididae
Opisthotriton kayi Auffenberg 1961
76 specimens
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela
Scapherpeton tectum Cope 1876
166 specimens
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
Anura indet. (Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
47 specimens
Actinopteri
Holostei informal indet. A Müller 1846
54 elements
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Atractosteus occidentalis (Leidy 1856)
1001 elements
original and current combination Lepidotus occidentalis
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Amiidae
Amiidae indet. Huxley 1861
10 elements
Actinopteri
Teleostei informal indet. D Müller 1846
41 elements
Teleostei indet. Müller 1846
100 elements
Actinopteri - Albuliformes - Albulidae
Coriops amnicolus Estes 1969
26 elements
Actinopteri - Elopiformes - Phyllodontidae
Paralbula casei Estes 1969
6 elements
Phyllodontinae indet. Darteville and Casier 1949
6 elements
Actinopteri - Esociformes - Esocidae
Estesesox foxi Wilson et al. 1992
7 elements
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae
Myledaphus bipartitus Cope 1876
15 elements
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Alberta
Coordinates: 49.1° North, 110.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:56.4° North, 76.5° 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:Oldman Member:Lower
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: lower unit of formation; 8.5 m above top of Taber Coal Zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:current ripples silty sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "a 50 to 75 cm thick, silty sandstone body, which displays a complexly stratified, ripple laminated, and heterolithic succession. Above the host lithosome are abundant contorted heterolithic beds which contain organic and coaly debris."
Environment:fine channel fill
Geology comments: "it probably represents a complexly interbedded lateral accretion in a paleochannel succession."
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:frequent
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:Ho S
Database number:45565
Authorizer:M. Carrano, J. Alroy Enterer:M. Carrano, J. Alroy
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-11-10 08:23:36 Last modified:2021-09-23 12:22:10
Access level:the public Released:2004-11-10 08:23:36
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]