Trent River Elasmosaur: Late/Upper Santonian, Canada
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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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | British Columbia |
| Coordinates: | 49.6° North, 125.0° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 53.5° North, 90.6° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Santonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
| *Period: | Late/Upper Cretaceous | *Epoch: | Senonian |
| *International age/stage: | Late/Upper Santonian | ||
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Santonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 86.30000 - 83.60000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Pender |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "siliciclastic" |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Articulated whole bodies: | none |
| Associated major elements: | none |
| Disassociated major elements: | all |
| Disassociated minor elements: | none |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 27723 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-01-06 20:49:29 | Last modified: | 2022-11-13 22:25:11 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-01-06 20:49:29 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 7623. | E. L. Nicholls and D. Meckert. 2002. Marine reptiles from the Nanaimo Group (Upper Cretaceous) of Vancouver Island. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 39(11):1591-1603 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |