7 miles northwest of Rumsey (50 ft level): Late/Upper Campanian - Maastrichtian, Canada
collected by C. M. Sternberg 1924-1926
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes
- Rajiformes
- Rhinobatidae
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Myledaphus bipartitus
Cope 1876
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Aspideretes sp.
Hay 1904
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= Trionychinae indet.
Gray 1825
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Alroy 2007 | ||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Nanhsiungchelyidae
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Basilemys sp.
Hay 1902
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Reptilia
- Crocodylia
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Crocodylia indet.
(Owen 1842)
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Reptilia
- Champsosauridae
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Champsosauridae indet.
Cope 1876
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
Coordinates: | 51.7° North, 112.9° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 59.5° North, 78.7° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Campanian - Maastrichtian | ||
Age range of interval: | 83.50000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Edmonton |
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Articulated whole bodies: | some |
Associated major elements: | some |
Disassociated major elements: | some |
Disassociated minor elements: | some |
Fragmentation: | occasional |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
Collectors: | C. M. Sternberg | Collection dates: | 1924-1926 |
Metadata
Database number: | 45757 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano, J. Alroy | Enterer: | M. Carrano, J. Alroy |
Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2004-11-30 12:02:45 | Last modified: | 2022-02-16 04:14:03 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-11-30 12:02:45 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
12117. | ETE | C. M. Sternberg. 1926. Notes on the Edmonton Formation of Alberta. Canadian Field-Naturalist 40:102-104 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
19636 | J. Alroy. 2007. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates and so forth. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
65160 | J. C. Mallon and D. B. Brinkman. 2018. Basilemys morrinensis, a new species of nanhsiungchelyid turtle from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Alberta, Canada. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38(2):e1431922:1-11 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/P. Mannion] |