ammonites
Baby Ceratopsian Site (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as BC

Where: Alberta, Canada (49.1° N, 110.5° W: paleocoordinates 56.3° N, 76.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Dinosaur Park Formation, Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• from a channel lag within the 8-16 m thick Lethbridge coal zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; shelly/skeletal mudstone

• "extensive lag (<50 cm thick), dominated by large numbers of unionid pelecypod valves and valve fragments"

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: D. A. Eberth and D. B. Brinkman. 1997. Paleoecology of an estuarine, incised-valley fill in the Dinosaur Park Formation (Judith River Group, Upper Cretaceous) of southern Alberta, Canada. Palaios 12:43-58 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34305: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.08.2003

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