ammonites
Gryde locality (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as SMNH Locality 72F08-0012

Where: Saskatchewan, Canada (49.3° N, 108.4° W: paleocoordinates 56.3° N, 80.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Frenchman Formation, Lancian (70.6 - 65.5 Ma)

• from a 35 cm thick bed

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; gray siltstone

• "floodplain deposits"
• "Siltstone, brown, popcorn weathering surface, stands more vertically than layer beneath"; fossils "within the top 50 cm of a 2 m thick dark gray siltstone"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by J. Storer, T. Tokaryk in 1984

Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), sieve,

Primary reference: T. T. Tokaryk and P. C. James. 1989. Cimoiopteryx sp. (Aves, Charadriiformes) from the Frenchman Formation (Maastrichtian), Saskatchewan. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 26:2729-2730 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14558: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Roger Benson and Matt Carrano

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