Near Herschel (Cretaceous to of Canada)

Where: Saskatchewan, Canada (51.6° N, 108.4° W: paleocoordinates 58.4° N, 73.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bearpaw Shale Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; sandy mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1990

Primary reference: T. Sato. 2005. A new polycotylid plesiosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Upper Cretaceous Bearpaw Formation in Saskatchewan, Canada. Journal of Paleontology 79(5):969-980 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 100237: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 02.12.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Polycotylidae
Dolichorhynchops herschelensis Sato 2005 plesiosaur
RSM P 2310.1