Scabby Butte, Site 4: Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Canada
collected by L. S. Russell 1955
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Mosasauridae
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Plioplatecarpus sp.
Dollo 1882
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1 individual | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 49.9° North, 113.0° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 57.8° North, 80.0° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | St. Mary River | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Refer to Langston, W., Jr. 1975. A late Cretaceous vertebrate fauna from the St. Mary River Formation in western Canada. Athlon, Roy. Ont. Mus. Spec. Publ.
Same stratigraphic level as shell bed at Site 3. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
| Geology comments: "Shell bed" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Articulated whole bodies: | all |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | NMC | ||
| Collectors: | L. S. Russell | Collection dates: | 1955 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | NMC Locality P-5701 | ||
| Database number: | 52076 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | K. Maguire |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-07-19 12:53:42 | Last modified: | 2022-05-09 04:47:25 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-07-19 12:53:42 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 13943. | ETE | W. Langston. 1975. The ceratopsian dinosaurs and associated lower vertebrates from the St. Mary River Formation (Maestrichtian) at Scabby Butte, southern Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 12:1576-1608 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 2208 | W. Langston. 1976. A Late Cretaceous vertebrate fauna from the St. Mary River Formation in western Canada. In C. S. Churcher (ed.), Athlon: Essays on Palaeontology in Honour of Loris Shano Russell 114-133 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano] | |
| 76818 | J. LeBlanc. 2000. Macrofossils. Their Localities in Alberta, Canada (with Notes on Adjacent Areas of British Columbia) 1-87 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |