UALVP locality 76, Watino: Early/Lower Turonian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Pseudoscapanorhynchidae
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Cretodus semiplicatus
(Agassiz 1843)
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Cook et al. 2013 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Odontaspididae
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Johnlongia parvidens
(Cappetta 1973)
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Cook et al. 2013 | |||||||||
Odontaspis watinensis n. sp.
Cook et al. 2013
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Cook et al. 2013 | |||||||||
Carcharias aff. striatula
(Dalinkevičius 1935)
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Cook et al. 2013 | |||||||||
recombined as Eostriatolamia striatula | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Otodontidae
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Cretalamna ex gr. appendiculata
(Agassiz 1835)
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Cook et al. 2013 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Cretoxyrhinidae
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Dallasiella willistoni
Cappetta and Case 1999
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Cook et al. 2013 | |||||||||
Cretoxyrhina mantelli
(Agassiz 1835)
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Cook et al. 2013 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Archaeolamnidae
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Archaeolamna ex gr. kopingensis
(Davis 1890)
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Cook et al. 2013 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Anacoracidae
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Squalicorax informal sp. A
Whitley 1939
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Cook et al. 2013 | |||||||||
Squalicorax informal sp. B
Whitley 1939
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Cook et al. 2013 | |||||||||
= Squalicorax mutabilis
Siversson and Cook 2018
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Siversson et al. 2018 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Mitsukurinidae
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Scapanorhynchus sp.
Woodward 1889
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Cook et al. 2013 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Cardabiodontidae
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Cardabiodon aff. ricki
Siverson 1999
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Cook et al. 2013 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Rajiformes
- Rhinobatidae
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Rhinobatos incertus
Cappetta 1973
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Cook et al. 2013 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Ptychodontidae
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Ptychodus anonymus
Williston 1900
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Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Polyacrodontidae
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Polyacrodus sp.
Jaekel 1889
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Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Hybodontidae
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Meristodonoides cf. rajkovichi
(Case 2001)
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Cook et al. 2013 | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Aulopiformes
- Enchodontidae
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Enchodus cf. shumardi
Leidy 1856
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Wilson and Chalifa 1989 | |||||||||
UALVP 22938 | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Aulopiformes
- Ichthyotringidae
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Apateodus sp.
Woodward 1901
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Wilson and Chalifa 1989 | |||||||||
UALVP 22959 | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Aulopiformes
- Dercetidae
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cf. Dercetoides sp.
Chalifa 1989
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Wilson and Chalifa 1989 | |||||||||
UALVP 22958, 23043 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Ichthyornis sp.
Marsh 1872
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Canada | State/province: | Alberta |
Coordinates: | 55.7° North, 117.6° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 59.5° North, 73.8° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Turonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
Key time interval: | Early/Lower Turonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 93.90000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Smoky | Formation: | Kaskapau | Member: | Vimy |
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: At Watino, Cretaceous sandstone is exposed at river level and the bone bed material is known only from loose blocks in heavily slumped debris. The nearest well-exposed section is at Hunting Creek, located 8 km NNE of Watino, where the upper part of the Dunvegan Formation and lower part of the overlying Kaskapau Formation are exposed. Using sea-level as a datum, the top of the Dunvegan Formation can be traced southward from Erin Lodge on the Peace River, to Hunting Creek near the Smoky River, and then projected south to Watino where the Dunvegan-Kaskapau contact is predicted to lie about 70 m above the level of the Smoky River. Therefore, rocks exposed near water level in the vicinity of Watino are probably part of the Dunvegan Formation, while those above, including the sediments with the fossil material, are part of the Kaskapau Formation. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | phosphatic poorly lithified sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: On this basis, it is concluded that the Hunting Creek phosphatic sandstone and the bone-bearing sandstone recovered from slumped debris at Watino are the same bed. Correlation of the phosphatic sandstone bed from Howard Creek to wells to the south and west suggest that the bed marks the top of Kaskapau unit II (Varban & Plint 2005). This bone bed is interpreted as a winnowed lag deposit and suggests a period of increased wave energy at the sea floor, an interpretation supported by the presence of forced-regressive shoreface sandstones at the top of unit II in the British Columbia Foothills. At Hunting Creek, the phosphatic sandstone, which is highly lenticular, forms wave ripples, hummocky cross-stratification and gutter casts, suggestive of at least intermittent storm wave action. | |
Environment: | transition zone/lower shoreface |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Degree of concentration: | -lag |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | all macrofossils,all microfossils |
Collection methods: | chemical,mechanical,acetic |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collection method comments: Repository: Laboratory for Vertebrate Paleontology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (UALVP) |
Metadata
Database number: | 136242 | ||
Authorizer: | S. Peters, M. Clapham | Enterer: | S. McMullen, J. Mordaunt, M. Clapham |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2012-11-24 07:23:16 | Last modified: | 2022-10-27 09:56:50 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-11-24 07:23:16 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
40827. | R. C. Fox. 1984. lchthyornis (Aves) from the early Turonian (Late Cretaceous) of Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 21:258-260 [M. Vavrek/M. Vavrek] |
Secondary references:
73623 | T. D. Cook, M. V. H. Wilson, A. M. Murray, A. G. Plint, M. G. Newbrey and M. J. Everhart. 2013. A high latitude euselachian assemblage from the early Turonian of Alberta, Canada. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 11:555-587 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] | |
74343 | M. Siversson, T. D. Cook, H. E. Ryan, D. K. Watkins, N. J. Tatarnic, P. J. Downes, and M. G. Newbrey. 2018. Anacoracid sharks and calcareous nannofossil stratigraphy of the mid-Cretaceous 'upper' Gearle Siltstone and Haycock Marl in the lower Murchison River area, Western Australia. Alcheringa 43:85-113 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] | |
77471 | M. V. H. Wilson and Y. Chalifa. 1989. Fossil marine actinopterygian fishes from the Kaskapau Formation (Upper Cretaceous: Turonian) near Watino, Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 26:2604-2620 [M. Clapham/J. Mordaunt] |