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Joffre Bridge Road Cut Fish Layer, Saskatchewan, Canada

Lat/Long (Decimal)53.95,-106.167
Co-ordinates Derivationnot explained
Given LocationAlberta, Canada
Mindat.org Region (for given coordinates)Saskatchewan, Canada

Collections

CollectionReferenceStratigraphic NameCommentsLithologyAge
Joffre Bridge Road Cut Fish LayerPaskapoo - LacombeETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: .mudstone66 - 56.8 Ma
Paleocene

Recorded Fossils

Accepted NameHierarchyAge
Crustacea
subphylum
Animalia : Arthropoda : Crustacea66 - 56.8 Ma
Paleocene
Amiidae
family
Animalia : Chordata : Actinopterygii : Amiiformes : Amiidae66 - 56.8 Ma
Paleocene
Joffrichthys symmetropterus
species
Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Joffrichthys : Joffrichthys symmetropterus66 - 56.8 Ma
Paleocene
Lopadichthys sp.
genus
Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Osteoglossiformes : Lopadichthys66 - 56.8 Ma
Paleocene
Massamorichthys wilsoni
species
Animalia : Chordata : Actinopterygii : Percopsiformes : Percopsidae : Massamorichthys : Massamorichthys wilsoni66 - 56.8 Ma
Paleocene

References

Murray A. M. (1996) A new Paleocene genus and species of percopsid, Massamorichthys wilsoni (Paracanthopterygii) from Joffre Bridge, Alberta, Canada, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16 4, 642-652
Li G.-Q., Wilson M. V. H. (1996) The discovery of heterotidinae (Teleostei: Osteoglossidae) from the Paleocene Paskapoo Formation of Alberta, Canada, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16 2, 198-209
Wilson M. V. H. (1996) Taphonomy of a mass-death layer of fishes in the Paleocene Paskapoo Formation at Joffre Bridge, Alberta Canada, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 33, 1487-1498
Murray A. M., Zelenitsky D. K., et al (2018) Two new Palaeocene osteoglossomorphs from Canada, with a reassessment of the relationships of the genus †Joffrichthys, and analysis of diversity from articulated versus microfossil material, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 1-8
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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