Syncrude Base Mine, West side II: Early/Lower Albian, Canada
collected by Syncrude, Canada ?1992-2006
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Elasmosauridae
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Elasmosauridae indet.
Cope 1869
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1 individual | |||||||||
| TMP 99.68.01 (partial pectoral girdle and vertebrae) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
| Coordinates: | 57.0° North, 111.7° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 56.4° North, 57.6° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Albian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 4 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Albian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 113.00000 - 109.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Mannville | Formation: | Clearwater | Member: | Wabiskaw |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Lower Albian age based on angiosperm palynomorphs and Foraminifera | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | very fine,medium,glauconitic sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: 2-3 metre thick, heterolithic, very fine- to medium-grained glauconitic sandstone unit... deposition of the uniti in which TMP 98.49.02 was found occured under fully marine conditions, as demonstrated by its laterally extensive deposits, trace fossil assemblages, and sedimentology... facies analysis of cores from the region around the type locality...suggests that deposition of the fossil-bearing unit occured in the lower shoreface-offshore transition zone. | |
| Environment: | transition zone/lower shoreface |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | TMP | ||
| Collectors: | Syncrude, Canada | Collection dates: | ?1992-2006 |
| Collection method comments: Oil sand mining | |||
Metadata
| Also known as: | TMP 99.68.01 elasmosaurid site | ||
| Database number: | 117449 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Benson | Enterer: | R. Benson | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-09-20 20:03:04 | Last modified: | 2011-09-20 06:03:04 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-09-20 20:03:04 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 37764. | P. S. Druckenmiller and A. P. Russell. 2006. A new elasmosaurid plesiosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Lower Cretaceous Clearwater Formation, Northeastern Alberta, Canada. Paludicola 5(4):184-199 [R. Benson/R. Benson] |