Cretin site: Late/Upper Campanian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Testudines indet.
Batsch 1788
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Chelydridae
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Chelydridae indet.
Swainson 1839
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9 specimens | ||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionychidae indet.
Gray 1825
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8 specimens | ||||||
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Reptilia
- Crocodylia
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Crocodylia indet.
(Owen 1842)
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9 specimens | ||||||
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Reptilia
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Champsosaurus sp.
Cope 1876
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11 specimens | ||||||
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
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Anura indet.
(Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
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4 specimens | ||||||
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Batrachosauroididae
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Opisthotriton sp.
Auffenberg 1961
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Urodela
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Scapherpeton sp.
Cope 1876
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60 specimens | ||||||
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Actinopteri
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Holostei informal indet. A
(Müller 1846)
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179 specimens | ||||||
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Holostei informal indet. B
(Müller 1846)
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4 specimens | ||||||
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Actinopteri
- Amiiformes
- Amiidae
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Amiidae indet.
Huxley 1861
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12 specimens | ||||||
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Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
- Lepisosteidae
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Lepisosteus sp.
Agassiz 1843
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1136 specimens | ||||||
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Actinopteri
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Teleostei indet.
(Müller 1846)
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2 specimens | ||||||
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Actinopteri
- Albuliformes
- Albulidae
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Coriops sp.
Estes 1969
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10 specimens | ||||||
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Actinopteri
- Elopiformes
- Phyllodontidae
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Paralbula sp.
Blake 1940
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6 specimens | ||||||
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Actinopteri
- Esociformes
- Esocidae
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Oldmanesox sp.
Wilson et al. 1992
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2 specimens | ||||||
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Actinopteri
- Salmoniformes
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Esocoidea indet.
Bleeker 1859
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Actinopteri
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Acanthopterygii informal indet. IIIA-1
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2 specimens | ||||||
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Actinopteri
- Aspidorhynchiformes
- Aspidorhynchidae
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Belonostomus longirostris
(Lambe 1902)
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12 specimens | ||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Rajiformes
- Rhinobatidae
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Myledaphus bipartitus
Cope 1876
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501 specimens | ||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Hybodontidae
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Hybodus montanensis
Case 1978
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4 specimens | ||||||
| recombined as Meristodonoides montanensis | |||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 50.7° North, 111.5° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 58.1° North, 76.1° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Altitude: | 666 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Belly River | Formation: | Dinosaur Park | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Regional order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: near top of formation | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | transgressive |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | concentrated |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | excellent |
| Abundance in sediment: | common |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,surface (float),sieve,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | TMP |
Metadata
| Also known as: | DPP, RTMP | ||
| Database number: | 98677 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-10-18 14:48:53 | Last modified: | 2010-10-18 16:48:53 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-10-18 14:48:53 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 34043. | ETE | D. B. Brinkman. 2008. The structure of Late Cretaceous (late Campanian) nonmarine aquatic communities: a guild analysis of two vertebrate microfossil localities in Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada. In J. T. Cankey, S. Baszio (eds.), Vertebrate Microfossil Assemblages: Their Role in Paleoecology and Paleobiogeography 33-60 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |