Also known as Black Coulee
Where: Alberta, Canada (49.1° N, 111.4° W: paleocoordinates 54.3° N, 73.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Deadhorse Coulee Member (Milk River Formation), Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)
• "about 40 feet above Lower Milk River sandstone"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by L. Russell in 1934; reposited in the GSC
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: L. S. Russell. 1935. Fauna of the upper Milk River Beds, southern Alberta. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, series 3 4(29):115-128 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 71486: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.04.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Viviparus conradi Meek and Hayden 1857 snail | |
Physa lactaena n. sp.
Physa lactaena n. sp. Russell 1935 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Anodonta johnseni n. sp., Rhabdotophorus gracilis n. gen. n. sp.
Anodonta johnseni n. sp. Russell 1935 freshwater mussel
Rhabdotophorus gracilis n. gen. n. sp. Russell 1935 freshwater mussel |