Sample name: Police Point

Sample aka: UAR-1

Reference: L. Krishtalka. 1973. Late Paleocene mammals from the Cypress Hills, Alberta. Special Publications of The Museum Texas Tech University 2:1-77 [ER 4115]

Lithology: claystone

Taphonomic context: lake deposit

Habitat comments: "The fossiliferous beds" are "approximately three feet thick" and are "extremely fine-grained... thinly bedded, bentonitic [clay] deposits" that imply "a low energy environment... an inland lake... in which ash falls accumulated
"most of the specimens collected for study are isolated teeth" but there is "a small number of fragmentary jaws"

Life forms: primates,ungulates,other large mammals,other small mammals

Sampling methods: screenwash

Sample size: 250 specimens

Years: 1961, 1966, 1967, 1969

Museum: UALVP

Sampling comments: discovered by J. A. Westgate and L. Hansen in 1961 and worked by the University of Alberta "under the direction" of R. C. Fox in 1966, 1967, and 1969, who "made small collections of fossiliferous rock totaling about 1000 pounds" and screen washed it in the laboratory
"actinopterygian fishes, salamanders, turtles, lizards and crocodilians are abundant"

Sample number: 4546

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2024-12-03 10:08:29

Modified: 2024-12-03 10:08:29