Where: Alberta, Canada (50.1° N, 114.4° W: paleocoordinates 32.3° N, 50.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fernie Group, Sinemurian (199.3 - 190.8 Ma)

• "situated approximately 1 m above the base of the Fernie"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; massive, black, conglomeratic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. B. Gordon in 1970, 1974

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: E. L. Nicholls. 1976. The oldest known North American occurrence of Plesiosauria (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Liassic (Lower Jurassic) Fernie Group, Alberta, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 13(1):185-188 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 106321: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 09.03.2011

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