Where: Nunavut, Canada (79.4° N, 92.2° W: paleocoordinates 69.9° N, 14.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Kanguk Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• located between top of Strand Fiord subaerial flood basal and base of marine shale of Kanguk Formation; 3 m thick unit
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; siltstone and shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by J. Tarduno et al. in 1996-2000
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, mechanical, peel or thin section, sieve,
• University of Rochester (UR) collection
Primary reference: J. A. Tarduno, D. B. Brinkman, P. R. Renne, R. D. Cottrell, H. Scher and P. Castillo. 1998. Evidence for extreme climatic warmth from Late Cretaceous Arctic vertebrates. Science 282:2241-2244 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 45559: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.11.2004, edited by Kaitlin Maguire, Roger Benson and Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Aurorachelys gaffneyi n. gen. n. sp.6
Aurorachelys gaffneyi n. gen. n. sp.6 Vandermark et al. 2009 turtle Holotype UR 06.085; impressions of the dorsal and ventral carapacial surfaces, and impressions of posterior plastron with a single hyoplastron and both hypoplastra and xiphiplastra.
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Tingmiatornis arctica n. gen. n. sp.1
Tingmiatornis arctica n. gen. n. sp.1 Bono et al. 2016 bird NUFV 1960 - holotype; referred specimens: UR 00.200 andNUFV 1838
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Champsosaurus sp.5 Cope 1876 choristodere Minimumum number of individuals 21 (Vandermark et al 2007)
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Osteoglossomorpha indet.3 Greenwood et al. 1966 |