Also known as L&W locality 13, Morgan Creek, Grasslands National Park
Where: Saskatchewan, Canada (49.0° N, 106.6° W: paleocoordinates 55.7° N, 78.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Frenchman Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• from "various levels" in the "Lance"
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•Frenchman Fm. was originally included within the overlying Ravenscrag Fm., but the two are now separate. Frenchman Fm. is Maastrichtian and Ravenscrag is Danian (see Eberth et al. 2019)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone and sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by C. M. Sternberg in 1921
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: C. M. Sternberg. 1924. Report on a collection of vertebrates from Wood Mountain, southern Saskatchewan, collected by C. M. Sternberg, 1921. Canada Department of Mines Geological Survey Bulletin (Geological Series) 38(43):27-28 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 45675: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 22.11.2004, edited by Terri Cleary and John Alroy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
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Adocus sp. Cope 1868 turtle | |
Basilemys sp. Hay 1902 turtle | |
Iguanavus sp. Marsh 1872 lizard | |
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Champsosaurus sp. Cope 1876 choristodere | |
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Ornithomimus sp. Marsh 1890 ornithomimid | |
"Thespesius saskatchewanensis n. sp." = Edmontosaurus annectens6
"Thespesius saskatchewanensis n. sp." = Edmontosaurus annectens6 Marsh 1892 hadrosaurine "new species"
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Triceratops sp. Marsh 1889 ceratopsid
Triceratops ? prorsus Marsh 1890 ceratopsid | |
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Amphibia | |
Scapherpeton tectum Cope 1876 salamander | |
Actinopteri | |
Pappichthys sp. bowfin | |
Lepisosteus occidentalis Leidy 1856 gar | |
Platacodon sp.5 Marsh 1889 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Myledaphus bipartitus Cope 1876 guitarfish |