Quality Creek, site 5 (facies 5): Turonian, Canada
collected by R. McCrea, C. Helm, L. Buckley 2003
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Ornithopoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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| footprints | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostreidae indet.
Rafinesque 1815
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Rylaarsdam et al. 2006 | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Corbulidae
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Corbulidae indet.
Lamarck 1818
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Rylaarsdam et al. 2006 | |||||||||
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unclassified
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Brachydontes sp.
Swainson 1840
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Rylaarsdam et al. 2006 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | British Columbia |
| Coordinates: | 55.2° North, 120.9° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 59.4° North, 77.1° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Altitude: | 976 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Turonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
| Key time interval: | Turonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 93.90000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | planar lamination,bioturbation mudstone | ||
| Secondary lithology: | sandstone | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Lithology description: "laminated to bioturbated mudstone" | |||
| Environment: | lagoonal | Tectonic setting: | foreland basin |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | transgressive | ||
| Geology comments: "brackish lagoon"; also described as an "oyster bioherm" | |||
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,cast,mold/impression,trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Abundance in sediment: | abundant |
| Articulated whole bodies: | some |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),observed (not collected) | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | R. McCrea, C. Helm, L. Buckley | Collection dates: | 2003 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 63083 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-08-04 06:55:57 | Last modified: | 2022-10-27 09:57:11 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-08-04 06:55:57 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 73958. | R. T. McCrea and L. G. Buckley. 2004. Excavating British Columbia’s first dinosaurs and other palaeontological projects in the Tumbler Ridge area. Alberta Palaeontological Society, Eighth Annual Symposium 24-33 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 73951 | R. T. McCrea, L. G. Buckley, A. G. Plint, P. J. Currie, J. W. Haggart, C. W. Helm, and S. G. Pemberton. 2014. A review of vertebrate track-bearing formations from the Mesozoic and earliest Cenozoic of western Canada with a description of a new theropod ichnospecies and reassignment of an avian ichnogenus. In M. G. Lockley & S. G. Lucas (ed.), Fossil Footprints of Western North America. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 62:5-94 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 18154 | ETE | J. R. Rylaarsdam, B. L. Varban, A. G. Plint, L. G. Buckley, and R. T. McCrea. 2006. Middle Turonian dinosaur paleoenvironments in the Upper Cretaceous Kaskapau Formation, northeast British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 43:631-652 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |