Verdigris Coulee (UA-MR-6) (Cretaceous of Canada)
Where: Alberta, Canada (49.1° N, 111.8° W: paleocoordinates 56.6° N, 77.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Milk River Formation, Aquilan (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, gray, argillaceous sandstone and sandy shale
• The upper member [of the Milk River Formation] is composed of nonmarine, drab gray, brown, and dark gray argillaceous sandstones and sandy shale with streaks of impure lignite.
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: R. C. Fox. 1976. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 13:1105 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 14425: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994, edited by Erin Leckey, Roger Benson and Matt Carrano
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