ammonites
Kleskun Hill Park, site B (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (55.3° N, 118.5° W: paleocoordinates 63.8° N, 80.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Baculites compressus ammonoid zone, Wapiti Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• above an ash layer dated as 73.77 ± 1.46 Ma (Ar/Ar)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: channel lag; paleosol/pedogenic, silty sandstone

• "well-drained, channel-lag and overbank deposits"
• inclined heterolithic strata; actually a fine sandstone, laminated, carbonate-cemented

Size class: mesofossils

Collected in 2004-2008; reposited in the TMP

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

Primary reference: F. Fanti and T. Miyashita. 2009. A high latitude vertebrate fossil assemblage from the Late Cretaceous of west-central Alberta, Canada: evidence for dinosaur nesting and vertebrate latitudinal gradient. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 275(1-4):37-53 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 89605: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 04.06.2009