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
Myledaphus bipartitus Cope 1876
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Aspideretes sp. Hay 1904
    = Trionychinae indet. Gray 1825
Alroy 2007
Reptilia - Testudines - Nanhsiungchelyidae
Basilemys sp. Hay 1902
Reptilia - Crocodylia
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
Reptilia - Champsosauridae
Champsosauridae indet. Cope 1876
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]