Hoodoo Site, RTMP L1126: 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" | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Sphaeriidae
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Pisidiidae indet.
Gray 1857
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spelled with current rank as Pisidiinae | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Cuvier 1795
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Reptilia
- Ankylosauridae
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Ankylosauridae indet.
Brown 1908
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Ceratopsidae
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Ceratopsidae indet.
Marsh 1888
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Hadrosauridae indet.
Cope 1869
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83 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Dromaeosauridae
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Richardoestesia gilmorei
Currie et al. 1990
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Saurornitholestes langstoni
Sues 1978
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6 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Tyrannosauridae
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Tyrannosauridae indet.
Osborn 1906
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Crocodylia
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Leidyosuchus sp.
Lambe 1907
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28 specimens | |||||||||
= Crocodylia indet.
Owen 1842
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Alroy 2007 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Alligatorinae indet.
Cuvier 1807
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Champsosaurus sp.
Cope 1876
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17 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Baenidae
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Baenidae indet.
Cope 1882
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Chelydridae
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Chelydridae indet.
Swainson 1839
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14 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Adocidae
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Adocus sp.
Cope 1868
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13 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionychidae indet.
Gray 1825
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Helodermatidae
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Helodermatidae indet.
Gray 1837
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Colpodontosaurus cf. cracens
Estes 1964
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Palaeosaniwa canadensis
Gilmore 1928
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Xenosauridae
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Xenosauridae indet.
Cope 1866
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Chamopsiidae
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Socognathus unicuspis
Gao and Fox 1991
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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 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
Cimexomys sp.
Sloan and Van Valen 1965
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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 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Cimolomys clarki
Sahni 1972
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Brinkman et al. 2004 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Albanerpetontidae
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Albanerpeton sp.
Estes and Hoffstetter 1976
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6 specimens | |||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Batrachosauroididae
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Opisthotriton kayi
Auffenberg 1961
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76 specimens | |||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Urodela
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Scapherpeton tectum
Cope 1876
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166 specimens | |||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
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Anura indet.
(Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
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47 specimens | |||||||||
Actinopteri
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Holostei informal indet. A
Müller 1846
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54 elements | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
- Lepisosteidae
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Atractosteus occidentalis
(Leidy 1856)
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1001 elements | |||||||||
original and current combination Lepidotus occidentalis | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Amiiformes
- Amiidae
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Amiidae indet.
Huxley 1861
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10 elements | |||||||||
Actinopteri
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Teleostei informal indet. D
Müller 1846
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41 elements | |||||||||
Teleostei indet.
Müller 1846
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100 elements | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Albuliformes
- Albulidae
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Coriops amnicolus
Estes 1969
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26 elements | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Elopiformes
- Phyllodontidae
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Paralbula casei
Estes 1969
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6 elements | |||||||||
Phyllodontinae indet.
Darteville and Casier 1949
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6 elements | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Esociformes
- Esocidae
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Estesesox foxi
Wilson et al. 1992
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7 elements | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Rajiformes
- Rhinobatidae
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Myledaphus bipartitus
Cope 1876
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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] | |
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] |