Jane's Site, Onefour: Late/Upper Campanian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Acipenseriformes - Acipenseridae
Acipenser albertensis Lambe 1902
88 elements
Mammalia - Marsupialia
Marsupialia indet. (Illiger 1811)
3 specimens
Mammalia - Multituberculata
Multituberculata indet. Cope 1884
1 specimen
Reptilia - Baenidae
Baenidae indet. Cope 1882
8 specimens
Reptilia - Testudines - Toxochelyidae
? Lophochelys sp. Zangerl 1953
15 specimens
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825
1 specimen
Reptilia - Dromaeosauridae
Saurornitholestes langstoni Sues 1978
1 specimen
Reptilia
Leidyosuchus canadensis Lambe 1907
4 specimens
Champsosaurus natator Parks 1933
21 specimens
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Batrachosauroididae
Opisthotriton kayi Auffenberg 1961
9 specimens
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela
Scapherpeton tectum Cope 1876
69 specimens
Actinopteri - Aspidorhynchiformes - Aspidorhynchidae
Belonostomus longirostris (Lambe 1902)
93 elements
Actinopteri
Teleostei informal indet. R (Müller 1846)
76 elements
Teleostei informal indet. S (Müller 1846)
113 elements
Teleostei informal indet. A (Müller 1846)
72 elements
Teleostei informal indet. D (Müller 1846)
22 elements
Teleostei informal indet. E (Müller 1846)
3 elements
Teleostei informal indet. G (Müller 1846)
40 elements
Teleostei informal indet. L (Müller 1846)
17 elements
Teleostei informal indet. N (Müller 1846)
8 elements
Teleostei informal indet. F (Müller 1846)
20 elements
Teleostei informal indet. Q (Müller 1846)
8 elements
Teleostei informal indet. C (Müller 1846)
22 elements
Actinopteri - Albuliformes - Albulidae
Coriops amnicolus Estes 1969
8 elements
Actinopteri - Elopiformes - Phyllodontidae
Paralbula casei Estes 1969
155 elements
Actinopteri - Esociformes - Esocidae
Estesesox foxi Wilson et al. 1992
6 elements
Actinopteri
Holostei informal indet. A (Müller 1846)
14 elements
Holostei informal indet. B (Müller 1846)
5 elements
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Amiidae
Amiidae indet. Huxley 1861
23 elements
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Atractosteus occidentalis (Leidy 1856)
771 elements
original and current combination Lepidotus occidentalis
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus montanensis Case 1978
4 elements
recombined as Meristodonoides montanensis
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae
Myledaphus bipartitus Cope 1876
143 elements
1989.001.0001, 1989.001.0084, 1989.001.0087
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: from a channel lag within the 8-16 m thick Lethbridge coal zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal mudstone
Lithology description: "extensive lag (<50 cm thick), dominated by large numbers of unionid pelecypod valves and valve fragments" in a 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:JS
Database number:34315
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2003-08-26 15:01:01 Last modified:2022-04-05 12:27:33
Access level:the public Released:2003-08-26 15:01:01
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]
81203 A. E. Wilson, M. G. Newbrey, D. B. Brinkman, T. D. Cook, and A. G. Neuman. 2013. Age and growth in Myledaphus bipartitus, a Late Cretaceous freshwater guitarfish from Alberta, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 50(9):930-944 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]