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Title: Marine reptiles (Plesiosauria and Mosasauridae) from the Puskwaskau Formation (Santonian-Campanian) west-central Alberta
Contributor(s): Bell, Phil  (author)orcid ; Fanti, Federico (author); Mitchell, Mark T (author); Currie, Philip J (author)
Publication Date: 2014
DOI: 10.1666/13-043
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/16870
Abstract: Plesiosaurs and mosasaurs are identified from the Puskwaskau Formation of west-central Alberta, Canada. These deposits record the final stages during which the Western Interior Seaway remained open to the Boreal Sea to the North and therefore are important for determining the ranges of high-latitude marine reptiles. Polycotylid and elasmosaurid plesiosaurs shared these waters with russellosaurine (including plioplatecarpine) mosasaurs suggesting a diverse ecology of large-bodied marine predators occupied these high-latitude waters in the early Campanian. This locality, situated at 65°N paleolatitude, helps link the poorly known faunas from northern Canada with the better-known faunas from central and southern North America. Rare articulated material from the Puskwaskau Formation urges further investigation of this poorly explored unit.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Journal of Paleontology, 88(1), p. 187-194
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication: United States of America
ISSN: 1937-2337
0022-3360
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 040308 Palaeontology (incl Palynology)
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 370506 Palaeontology (incl. palynology)
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 970104 Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 280107 Expanding knowledge in the earth sciences
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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