Above Coal Site: Late/Upper Campanian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Acipenseriformes
- Polyodontidae
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Polyodontidae indet.
Bonaparte 1838
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19 elements | |||||||||
Acipenseriformes
- Acipenseridae
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Acipenser albertensis
Lambe 1902
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78 elements | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Marsupialia
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Marsupialia indet.
(Illiger 1811)
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7 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Multituberculata
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Multituberculata indet.
Cope 1884
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Baenidae
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Baenidae indet.
Cope 1882
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9 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Toxochelyidae
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? Lophochelys sp.
Zangerl 1953
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9 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Chelydridae
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Chelydridae indet.
Swainson 1839
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Adocidae
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Adocus sp.
Cope 1868
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionychidae indet.
Gray 1825
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20 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Theropoda
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Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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2 specimens | |||||||||
"large" | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Hesperornithiformes
- Baptornithidae
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? Baptornis sp.
Marsh 1877
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Ceratopsia indet.
Marsh 1890
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6 specimens | |||||||||
Leidyosuchus canadensis
Lambe 1907
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37 specimens | |||||||||
Champsosaurus natator
Parks 1933
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59 specimens | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Squamata
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Squamata indet.
Oppel 1811
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Batrachosauroididae
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Opisthotriton kayi
Auffenberg 1961
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56 specimens | |||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Urodela
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Scapherpeton tectum
Cope 1876
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334 specimens | |||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
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Anura indet.
(Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Aspidorhynchiformes
- Aspidorhynchidae
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Belonostomus longirostris
(Lambe 1902)
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506 elements | |||||||||
Actinopteri
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Teleostei informal indet. R
(Müller 1846)
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67 elements | |||||||||
Teleostei informal indet. S
(Müller 1846)
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29 elements | |||||||||
Teleostei informal indet. A
(Müller 1846)
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70 elements | |||||||||
Teleostei informal indet. D
(Müller 1846)
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26 elements | |||||||||
Teleostei informal indet. G
(Müller 1846)
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7 elements | |||||||||
Teleostei informal indet. L
(Müller 1846)
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5 elements | |||||||||
Teleostei informal indet. N
(Müller 1846)
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17 elements | |||||||||
Teleostei informal indet. F
(Müller 1846)
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19 elements | |||||||||
Teleostei informal indet. Q
(Müller 1846)
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2 elements | |||||||||
Teleostei informal indet. C
(Müller 1846)
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4 elements | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Albuliformes
- Albulidae
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Coriops amnicolus
Estes 1969
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3 elements | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Elopiformes
- Elopidae
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Paratarpon apogerontus
Bardack 1970
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3 elements | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Elopiformes
- Phyllodontidae
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Paralbula casei
Estes 1969
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1345 elements | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Esociformes
- Esocidae
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Estesesox foxi
Wilson et al. 1992
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3 elements | |||||||||
Actinopteri
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Holostei informal indet. A
(Müller 1846)
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25 elements | |||||||||
Holostei informal indet. B
(Müller 1846)
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24 elements | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Amiiformes
- Amiidae
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Amiidae indet.
Huxley 1861
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62 elements | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
- Lepisosteidae
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Atractosteus occidentalis
(Leidy 1856)
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13427 elements | |||||||||
original and current combination Lepidotus occidentalis | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Hybodontidae
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Hybodus montanensis
Case 1978
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34 elements | |||||||||
recombined as Meristodonoides montanensis | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Rajiformes
- Rhinobatidae
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Myledaphus bipartitus
Cope 1876
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546 elements | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
Coordinates: | 49.1° North, 110.5° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 56.3° North, 76.0° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
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 | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: probably from a channel lag within the 8-16 m thick Lethbridge coal zone |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | mudstone |
Lithology description: thin, sandy, gastropod-shell-rich lags [in a] heterolithic mudstone | |
Environment: | estuary/bay |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Disassociated minor elements: | many |
Spatial resolution: | allochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | bulk,sieve,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | AC | ||
Database number: | 34302 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2003-08-26 14:11:58 | Last modified: | 2021-09-22 16:12:16 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-08-26 14:11:58 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
9017. | D. A. Eberth and D. B. Brinkman. 1997. Paleoecology of an estuarine, incised-valley fill in the Dinosaur Park Formation (Judith River Group, Upper Cretaceous) of southern Alberta, Canada. Palaios 12:43-58 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
78157 | D. A. Eberth. 2015. Origins of dinosaur bonebeds in the Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 52(8):655-681 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |