Puntledge River Kourisodon Type Locality: Late/Upper Santonian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
Kourisodon puntledgensis n. gen., n. sp. Nicholls and Meckert 2002
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:British Columbia
Coordinates: 49.7° North, 125.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:53.6° 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:85.80000 - 83.50000 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:all
Associated major elements:none
Disassociated major elements:none
Disassociated minor elements:none
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:27724
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2003-01-06 20:51:51 Last modified:2003-01-06 23:00:22
Access level:the public Released:2003-01-06 20:51:51
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]