ammonites
Kostiuk, E-2 Pit (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Smoky River Coal Mine

Where: Alberta, Canada (54.0° N, 119.3° W: paleocoordinates 55.2° N, 69.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Grande Cache Member (Gates Formation), Middle Albian (109.0 - 105.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected in 1991; reposited in the TMP

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: R. T. McCrea and P. J. Currie. 1998. A preliminary report on dinosaur tracksites in the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) Gates Formation near Grande Cache, Alberta. In S. G. Lucas, J. I. Kirkland, and J. W. Estep (eds.), Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 14:155-162 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 52370: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 04.08.2005