ammonites
Birchwood (Paleocene of Canada)

Also known as ETE Locality 1533

Where: Alberta, Canada (53.2° N, 114.7° W: paleocoordinates 59.7° N, 91.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Paskapoo Formation, Ti3 (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)

• said to be "middle Tiffanian (Ti3)" by Webb 1998 and Scott (2010)

•"30 cm thick layer"

•ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: .

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; poorly lithified sandstone and poorly lithified sandstone

• "fluvial depositional environment"

•ETE sed env 1: ., ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0

• "numerous lenses of poorly consolidated mudclast conglomerate, coarse and fine sandstone, and mudstone" (Scott et al. 2006) or "coarse, poorly consolidated sandstone" (Scott 2010)

•ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: 0

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, sieve

• "over 400 identifiable mammal teeth and jaw fragments have been collected through careful quarrying and limited screenwashing"

•ETE Abrasion: ., ETE Assemblage formation: ., ETE transport: ., ETE weathering/trampling: ., ETE part concentration: ., ETE time represented: . ,ETE vert pres: ., ETE invert pres: ., ETE plant pres: .

Primary reference: C. S. Scott, M. W. Webb, and R. C. Fox. 2006. Horolodectes sunae, an enigmatic mammal from the late Paleocene of Alberta, Canada. Journal of Paleontology 80(5):1009-1025 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14928: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.10.1995

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