ammonites
Salamander Site, RTMP L1135 (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Sal S

Where: Alberta, Canada (49.1° N, 110.7° W: paleocoordinates 57.0° N, 75.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Oldman Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Nesmo's unit, upper part of formation; 20-30 m above middle unit

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; tabular, silty, carbonaceous sandstone and ferruginous sandstone

• "0.75 to 1.0 m thick, tabular, carbonaceous, silty sandstone. The host lithosome pinches out 30 m to the north, and passes into stacked ripple laminations with local ironstone 20 m to the south."

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the TMP

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: J. Peng, A. P. Russell, and D. B. Brinkman. 2001. Vertebrate microsite assemblages (exclusive of mammals) from the Foremost and Oldman Formations of the Judith River Group (Campanian) of southeastern Alberta: an illustrated guide. Provincial Museum of Alberta, Natural History Occasional Paper 25:1-54 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 45822: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 06.12.2004, edited by John Alroy